News

2019

August

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• Job training can change lives. Avigail Rodriguez, a former Project Quest student, works in the emergency room at Metropolitan Methodist Hospital in San Antonio as a registered nurse. The training helped her nearly triple her wage.

• The student loan industry lobbied DeVos to fight state regulations. The Trump administration’s attempts to shield some student loan companies from new state regulations began after the industry waged a furious lobbying campaign, which included the head of student loan giant Navient, emails

• When unpaid debt can reduce your Social Security. Certain delinquent financial obligations can result in your monthly Social Security benefits being garnished.

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• Millennials—it’s not too early for you to start investing now. Young adults have available to them an important investing strategy that older investors don’t. They have time on their side. Consistently investing over a 30- or 40-year career can result in a seven-figure

• Payday lenders faced tough new rules before Trump took office. Something very important, affecting millions of consumers, won’t happen Monday. Today is when new protections from abusive payday and car-title lenders were set to take effect, requiring the firms to make sure borrowers

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• Government coordination would help millions repay student loans. When it comes to federal student loans, there’s good news and bad.

• How to pay off medical debt. When all else fails, these tools can help you deal with big bills.

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• Give the FTC some teeth to guard our privacy. You might think that after the Federal Trade Commission levied a $5 billion fine against Facebook for privacy violations relating to Cambridge Analytica, the agency has great power to protect our privacy on the internet. But

• These are the new rules for finding a financial advisor you can trust. On its face, the new measure, known as Regulation Best Interest, sounds promising. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) says that broker-dealers must act in the best interest of their customers when recommending

• I shared my phone number. I learned I shouldn't have. Our mobile phone numbers have become permanently attached to us because we rarely change them, porting them from job to job and place to place. In fact, your phone number may have now become an

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• Trump acknowledges his tariffs could hit consumers. President Trump's recent words—and actions—are a noticeable change from his insistence that the Chinese are paying the full cost of his tariffs. His push to put a 10 percent tariff

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• Be strategic when closing credit accounts. Dear Liz: I recently moved to a new state and would like to open a credit card at my new credit union. I’m concerned that closing my old credit union account and card

• To graduate high school, you must file a FAFSA. More states are adding a graduation requirement for high school seniors: filling out the college financial aid form known as the FAFSA.

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• This Social Security scam is just evil. “Evil” is all I can think of to describe the people behind the Social Security scam. It’s especially heinous when you consider that many of the victims are retirees on fixed

• 7 signs you can afford the home you want to buy. While housing prices have been on the rise, and trends in how buyers make down payments are changing, many looking to buy a home might feel that they're ready. A few top questions to

• The dizzying journey for public servants with student debt. There are many ways public servants can stumble as they make their way along the path to student loan forgiveness but few options when mistakes are made. One option isn’t even publicized by

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• FHFA decision harms limited English consumers, advocates warn. For Immediate Release:  The Americans for Financial Reform (AFR) Language Access Task Force strongly opposes the decision announced by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to remove the question about a borrower

• Goldman Sachs issues Apple card into subprime consumers (Chinese). 高盛(Goldman Sachs)正透過蘋果公司的新信用卡向客戶撒網，透過批准申請程序大舉納入一些信貸不佳借款人。

• CA needs to institute a ‘student borrower bill of rights’. Several million Californians have education debt to pay off but too often get tripped up by a terribly complex repayment system and shoddy treatment by loan servicers. To make matters worse, the Department of Education

• When and how to defer student loans. For borrowers looking to postpone payments, here are answers to frequently asked questions about how to defer student loans.