News

2019

April

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• Seniors spending $22 billion from savings to cover health-care costs. Many senior citizens can't afford to pay for their prescription drugs or visits to doctors.

• Undocumented immigrants are paying their taxes too. It's a surprising fact that's often overlooked in the immigration debate.

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• Elizabeth Warren's plan: Cancel student debt and eliminate tuition. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who has structured her presidential campaign around a steady unveiling of disruptive policy ideas, on Monday proposed her biggest one yet: a $1.25 trillion plan to reshape higher education by canceling

• Why aren't more people tapping into their home equity?. The options for tapping in to home equity appear to be growing.  Of course, you have your standard HELOCs and home equity loans and – for seniors –reverse mortgages could be an option.

• FTC considering oversight of Facebook’s Zuckerberg. Federal regulators are reportedly considering seeking some kind of oversight of Mark Zuckerberg’s leadership of Facebook over the social network giant’s mishandling of users’ personal information. Discussions between Facebook and

• How WhatsApp and other encryption apps shaped the Mueller report. Free encryption technology now is available to almost anybody in the world with a laptop computer or smartphone, a development that can complicate the recovery of information even by authorities such as Mueller who have

• Free speech puts U.S. on ‘collision course’ with global limits on big tech. Britain, Germany, Australia, New Zealand and India have adopted or are considering laws that require stricter content moderation by tech platforms. But none of them need to work around free speech protections like the First

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• How to make retirement last the rest of your life. I thought the hard part was living within your means and saving for retirement. It’s not. Trying to figure out how to cash out your nest egg—your tax-deferred retirement account, your

• Debt collectors may soon text, email consumers. Debt collecting is an age-old business but it may soon receive a 21st-century revamp when the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency created in the wake of the financial crisis to protect consumers, proposes new

• CFPB head says people need ‘to help themselves’. After becoming head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau—a job for which she had little if any relevant experience—Kathleen Kraninger went on what she called a three-month “listening tour”

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• Uber vs. Lyft: Which ride-hailing app is better. While both services look identical, there are major differences. Uber is richer in features and available in more cities. Yet Lyft is more transparent in its receipts about the details of a trip, which can

• Could debt collectors send you texts, emails?. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will unveil debt collection rules in a few weeks, the agency’s director said potentially unleashing a battle over the industry’s tactics and consumers’ rights. The

• No-income, no-asset mortgages are back. NINA loans are loans that do not include a requirement for a borrower to prove income or assets. No Income, No Assets = NINA. And now, NINA loans are back, as 360 Mortgage Group announced, that it

• Military members could save tens of millions of dollars on student loans. Members of the military who are receiving imminent danger pay or hostile fire pay — essentially a higher salary for serving in dangerous situations — are entitled to have their student loan interest rate set

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• Opinion: Privacy is too big to understand. At its heart, privacy is about how that data is used to take away our control. Today, our control is chipped away in ways large and small. It may be as innocuous as using your

• Student loans shouldn't keep you from investing. If you’re dealing with a mountain of student loan debt, the last thing you might be thinking about investing. But Erin Lowry, author of “Broke Millennial’s Takes on Investing,

• Fisher-Price Rock ‘n Play recall leaves parents frustrated. Last week’s recall of nearly 5 million Rock 'n Plays hit close to home for sleep-deprived parents who have turned to the Fisher-Price product for a moment of reprieve—or a night&rsquo

• Toma hijo, tu tarjeta de crédito. No son tan populares como los celulares pero seis millones de padres dan dinero de plástico a menores Llega un momento en el que los padres, abuelos y otros familiares dan una mesada

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• Vets could be first to pay as DeVos rolls back for-profit college oversight. Eric Dean made a career of calling military veterans to urge them to enroll at Ashford University, a for-profit school based in San Diego that offers online degrees.  Dean told NBC News he had

• Mulvaney’s master class in destroying the government from within. The C.F.P.B. was created to protect Americans from predatory lenders after the financial crisis. President Trump’s new chief of staff took it apart on his way to White House. Inside