Headline News Archive

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

• 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,

• 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

• 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

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

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• 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

• 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.

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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

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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

• 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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• 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

• 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

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• 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。

• 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.

• Meet the lawyer who had student debt forgiven. At one point in the process, Jeffrey Morgan discovered only about half of the payments he’d made since consolidating his loans qualified towards

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• Student loans: Uncomfortable for Americans to talk about. Over a third of Americans say they see student loan debt as the biggest financial taboo, according to a Harris Poll of over 1,000 U.S.

• How young is too young for a kid to have a credit card?. Some tweens and young teens, about one in six, now has a credit card. The 2019 Parents, Kids and Money Survey by T. Rowe Price shows

• Your next Lyft ride may cost a little more. Lyft said riders in multiple cities are paying higher prices, an unwelcome development for thousands of customers as the company sets its sights on achieving

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• SDG&E warning customers about scams over new electrical meters (Chinese). (本報記者)近日聖地牙哥地區出現電錶費用積欠詐騙案件，歹徒犯案手法精密逼真，聖地牙哥瓦斯和電力公司(SDGE)呼籲民眾謹慎小心，不要成為騙局受害者。

• Easier application and repayment process drive personal loan growth (Chinese). 借錢救急的方式很多種，近年來成長最快的方式則非個人貸款(personal loan)莫屬。

• $1M bribery! AT&T employees accepted bribes to unlock 2M cellphones (Chinese). 司法部對一名男子提出控告，指他五年內向AT&T公司的員工行賄100多萬元，以詐欺方式給200多萬支手機解鎖，以使手機用戶擺脫AT&T的服務合約。

• How collectors trick consumers into reviving dead debts. Debt collectors lose the right in many states to sue consumers after three or more years. But there’s a loophole: If the consumer

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• What if your millennial co-worker opts not to save for retirement?. If millennials aren't saving enough for retirement should you speak up?

• Fed says it will develop faster digital banking system. Big banks object to a Federal Reserve system to cut the time for electronic payments to clear, arguing it’s a potential Trojan horse