Headline News Archive

2022

January

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• Ambitious broadband funding has key impediment: an outdated map. The federal government is slated to pump a record amount of funding into projects to expand Internet access and affordability. But Edmonston’s experience

2021

December

30

• Ban on surprise medical bills starts this week. If you are having a medical emergency and go to an urgent care center or emergency room, you can’t be charged more than

27

• Many home insurance premiums are rising. Across the country, homeowners renewing their policies are discovering that rising material costs, supply chain disruptions and climate change are combining to drive premiums up

23

• CFPB takes aim at ‘buy now, pay later’. The CFPB has asked Affirm, Afterpay, Klarna, PayPal and Zip to collect information on the risks and benefits of the BNPL offerings. Among other issues,

22

• Biden administration extends federal student loan payment pause. The Biden administration, shifting course on a crucial pocketbook issue for millions of adults, announced it will extend a pause on federal student loan payments

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• The ‘most serious’ security breach ever is unfolding right now. On Dec. 9, word of a newly discovered computer bug in a hugely popular piece of computer code--log4j--started rippling around the cybersecurity community. By the

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• The return of the 10-minute eviction. Nobody in Phoenix was better or more practiced at the business of eviction than Lennie, who had personally removed more than 20,000 Arizonans from their homes

• The ultimate guide to secure passwords. Password fatigue is real, but don’t let it stop you from making some small changes to protect your accounts, your wallet and your

15

• Global investors gobbling up first-time homebuyer homes. Over the past six years, 19 of the 32 homes on Tammy Sue Lane have been purchased by a billion-dollar investment venture, part of an unprecedented flow

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• What you need to know if you’re being tracked down by a debt collector. What proof does a debt collector have to provide me that I owe the debt? This “debt collection validation notice” should include enough

• Amazon’s search results full of ads that may be 'deceiving’ consumers. More than a quarter of search results on Amazon are paid ads, according to the complaint filed by the Strategic Organizing Center, a coalition of

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• New rule will let debt collectors track you down on social media. Debt collection rules have expanded the ways debt collectors can chase down debtors. In practice, it may mean millions of consumers can now be bombarded

November

25

• How to protect yourself from online shopping scams this holiday season. Pay with a credit card, not a debit card. You may be thinking you can avoid getting into debt by paying with your debit card.

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• Amazon wages secret war on Americans' privacy, documents show. In recent years, Amazon.com Inc has killed or undermined privacy protections in more than three dozen bills across 25 states, as the e-commerce giant amassed

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• Apple concedes on Right to Repair. Apple reversed its longstanding policy against selling spare parts, providing repair instructions, and making repair software tools available to customers with its announcement of a

15

• How Congress plans to lower drug prices and out-of-pocket costs. Americans are sick and tired of paying the highest prices in the world for their medications. Fortunately, the House of Representatives recently unveiled the text

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• Last chance to get advance child tax credit. It could be a financial lifeline just in time for the holidays — a child tax credit payment to cover food, rent or presents for

03

• Workers won arbitration cases against employers just 1.6 % of the time. U.S. employers relied heavily on arbitration in the first months of the pandemic, pushing a record number of complaints involving discrimination, harassment, wage theft

01

• Will that college degree pay off? A look at the numbers. Researchers on both ends of the political spectrum are already diving into the numbers and doing the math. They’ve found hundreds of programs

October

26

• Your browser can tell websites how to treat your data. Privacy-conscious Internet surfers will soon have an additional weapon on their side. You can’t see it working, but a special signal known as

22

• Justice Department to expand redlining investigation efforts. The Justice Department announced Friday a cross-government effort to investigate and prosecute redlining, the practice of banks discriminating against racial minorities or certain neighborhoods. It

• Tiendas de dólar: ¿Son una oferta o no?. La promesa de precios bajos está implícita en sus nombres: Dollar General, Dollar Tree y Family Dollar. Pero, ¿son reales las

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• Consumer watchdog to probe Big Tech payment systems. In its first significant action under a new director, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is ordering Apple, Amazon, PayPal and other tech giants to reveal

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• Hearing aids without a prescription or an exam?. A long-awaited Food and Drug Administration proposal would allow millions of consumers to buy over-the-counter hearing aids in stores or online without a prescription or

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• 13 estados que cobran impuestos por recibir beneficios del Seguro Social. Saber qué estados cobran impuestos del Seguro Social podría ayudarte a tomar mejores decisiones sobre dónde deseas vivir cuando te