Headline News Archive

2019

April

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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

• 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

• 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,

• 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 —

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• 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,

• 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

• 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

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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

• 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

• Your student loan servicer will call you back in a year. Sorry.. The emails started arriving in my inbox from borrowers in the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program in late February. Their states of residence —

• Cómo leer tu informe de crédito. Hoy más que nunca es una buena idea revisar tu informe crediticio. Aquí te decimos qué es lo que debes buscar.

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• Veterans could be harmed by lack of for-profit college oversight. While the Obama Administration didn’t solve all the problems associated with the for-profit college industry, it successfully created new rules intended to help

• Streaming TV has become a pricey, complicated mess. There is no real debate about the outcome: The dreams of cord cutters are largely unfulfilled. A transition that some hoped would provide more choice,

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• SU BOLSILLO: Al planificar su jubilación no cometa este error con el Seguro Social. Estimada Liz: Tengo 64 años, soy soltera y me diagnosticaron diabetes tipo 2. Sigo trabajando a tiempo completo, pero debido a mi salud, cada vez

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• Why you should check your Social Security estimates. Checking your official Social Security statement is important to make sure your future retirement benefits reflect what you’ve earned over your working life.

• Google's Sensorvault: A boon for law enforcement. How it works.. Law enforcement officials across the country have been seeking information from a Google database called Sensorvault — a trove of detailed location records involving at

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• Millennials say college wasn't worth it. Nearly half of indebted millennials think college wasn't worth taking out student loans, according to an INSIDER and Morning Consult survey.

• States say DeVos is hurting efforts to police loan servicers. There's a fight brewing between states and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos over who has the power to police student loan servicing companies as

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• Do you know what you've given up?. That phone in your pocket, the surveillance camera on the corner: You’ve traded away a bit of anonymity, of autonomy, for the usefulness

• With $13 billion in disaster relief stuck in gridlock, lawmakers head to recess. The fight between President Trump and Democrats over money for Puerto Rico has left a major disaster aid bill languishing on Capitol Hill, with lawmakers

• How Facebook is trying to stop its own algorithms from doing their job. For years, Facebook has built its algorithms to maximize engagement and clicks.  The company has announced a slew of new features and incremental product

• Net neutrality bill sails through the House but faces uncertain future. House lawmakers approved a Democrat-backed bill that would restore rules requiring AT&T, Verizon and other Internet providers to treat all Web traffic equally,

• Dark web monitoring. We’ve all heard of the dark web, although few of us really know much about it. News reports tell us it’s

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• Bank of America to raise minimum wage to $20 an hour by 2021. Bank of America said Tuesday that it would raise its minimum wage to $20 an hour by 2021, a move that comes a day before banking industry

• Employers, health insurers using apps to track your pregnancy. Period- and pregnancy-tracking apps such as Ovia have climbed in popularity as fun, friendly companions for the daunting uncertainties of childbirth, and many expectant women