Headline News Archive

2019

June

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• Sallie Mae is expanding from student loans to credit cards. Sallie Mae, the student loan provider once sponsored by the government, is expanding into credit cards. The company this month unveiled a suite

• Sen. Warren to cancel up to $50k in student debt for most borrowers. Elizabeth Warren’s proposal to cancel student debt will soon be one step closer to reality — even if she doesn’t become

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• Social Security is staring at its first real shortfall in decades. Next year, for the first time since 1982, the program must start drawing down its assets in order to pay retirees all of the benefits they

• Florida company sued over sale of skimpy health plans. Consumers say they believed they were purchasing Affordable Care Act plans that include coverage guarantees. But they were sold much less comprehensive coverage that left

• Zuckerberg knew of ‘problematic’ privacy practices. Facebook Inc. uncovered emails that seem to show Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg was aware of potentially problematic privacy practices at the company, the Wall Street

• Where 20 years of child online protection law went wrong. Two decades after Congress tried to wall off the worst of the Internet in hopes of protecting the privacy and innocence of children, the ramparts

• AI researchers race to detect ‘deepfake’ videos. Top artificial-intelligence researchers across the country are racing to defuse an extraordinary political weapon: computer-generated fake videos that could undermine candidates and mislead voters during

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• Landmark deal reached on NY rent protections. Newly empowered Democratic leaders in Albany announced a landmark agreement on Tuesday to strengthen New York’s rent laws and tenant protections, seeking to

• States sue over Sprint, T-Mobile merger. A $26 billion T-mobile/Sprint merger deal seemed to be moving forward in recent weeks, when the head of the Federal Communications Commission gave it his

• Chase prueba su nuevo concepto de sucursal bancaria en Harlem. En la era de la tecnologías de las finanzas e Internet no obstante la red de sucursales en mercados sociales sigue siendo b

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• Bankruptcy bill to wipe out borrowers' student loan debt. Pointing to the 44 million Americans who owe more than $1.5 trillion in student loan debt, Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin on Monday pushed for legislation that would

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• 16.000 personas en L.A viven en su auto, pero los estacionamientos seguros siguen siendo escasos. Hace dos años, Los Ángeles comenzó a probar una alternativa a los refugios para personas sin hogar, llamada estacionamiento seguro, que

• Los precios de la gasolina se abaratan antes de iniciar el verano. Una semana más y el precio podría caer en un promedio de 16 centavos por galón en todo el pa

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• Para los californianos, el sueño dorado depende de dónde vivas y cuánto ganes. El gobernador Gavin Newsom fanfarroneó en la convención del Partido Demócrata de California del mes pasado al insistir en

• Cómo mejorar el puntaje crediticio antes de comprar una casa. Estoy tratando de comprar mi primera casa. Tengo un pago inicial del 20% para el rango de precios que busco. El problema es que mi cr

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• Consumer watchdog delays payday lending rule. The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said it is once again extending the compliance date for an ability-to-repay provision of a rule cracking down

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• Maine's strict new internet privacy protection. The new law, which goes into effect on July 1, 2020, would require internet service providers to ask for permission before they sell or share any of

• A financial checklist for your newly minted high school graduate. If you want to set your child up properly for college, work, military service and the years beyond, there are several things you ought to

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• Chase: Arbitration's ‘better' for consumers. Nope, say researchers. JPMorgan Chase is notifying more than 40 million credit card holders that from now on they’ll have to arbitrate any disputes, forgoing the option

• Senators say debt collection proposal puts industry ahead of consumers. More than 20 U.S. Senators are calling on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to reconsider a proposal  that would allow debt collectors to send

• Who actually beneifts from tax breaks for distressed neighborhoods?. Part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 was a provision known as Opportunity Zones that was designed to significantly boost the fortunes of

• A watchdog whitewashed its oversight of FEMA’s disaster response. After catastrophic floodwaters submerged wide stretches of southern Louisiana in 2016, displaced homeowners and officials criticized the federal recovery effort as dangerously slow, leaving thousands of

• S.E.C. adopts new broker rules that advocates say are toothless. Regulators have new rules for Wall Street brokers providing investment advice: Put the customer first.  But consumer advocates argue that the rules amount to

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• Groups urge CFPB to root out discrimination in student-loan servicing. Civil rights organizations are urging the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to step up oversight of the student-loan servicing industry and root out

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• A blow against bogus stem cell clinics. In an important ruling protecting public health, a federal judge in Miami on Monday backed the Food and Drug Administration in its campaign to rein