Headline News Archive

2019

April

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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

• CFPB says 'all options on table' for enforcing Wells Fargo order. The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has told Congress that “all options are on the table” for enforcing a 2018 consent order

• Military personnel caught in crossfire over lending law. The first major standoff between Democratic lawmakers and the Trump-appointed director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is threatening to put military servicemembers at risk.

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• Tip on how to handle fraudulent robocalls (Chinese). 【新唐人2019年04月09日讯】据统计，今年3月全美共有52亿通由机器人发出的自动诈骗电话，全美平均每人接到16通，面对这些情况，不仅浪费当事人时间精力，还引起不必要的恐慌甚至上当受骗，看专家教居民如何应对，来了解。

• When banks pay colleges, students pay millions more in fees. College students paid more than $24 million dollars in overdraft, ATM, and other bank fees last year—and a majority of those penalties stem from

• JPMorgan CEO calls student loans 'significant issue'. JPMorgan Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon weighed in on student loans, which he called "a significant issue." Here's what you need to

• 'Grandparent scam' never goes out of fashion. A man reached out to our Call for Action team to warn others about a frightening phone call he received. The caller claimed the man

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• Increase in risky corporate loans could lead to financial crisis. Actions by federal regulators and Republicans in Congress over the past two years have paved the way for banks and other financial companies to issue

• Senators to consumer watchdog: Prove you're protecting students. Six Democratic senators, including two presidential candidates, sent a letter to the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau last week demanding

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• $1.4M was cheated from an elderly during this tax filing season (Chinese). 【新唐人2019年04月05日讯】目前，美国正在报税季节期间，电信诈骗的案件也频繁发生。在纽约，甚至有一名华裔耆老被骗走140万美元，警方提醒民众如何避免上当受骗，请看报导。

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• Sears cutting life insurance benefits for up to 90,000 retirees. Sears notified up to 90,000 of its retirees this month that it would be ending their life insurance benefits, CBS News reports.

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• Need a boost to your credit rating? Try these new financial tools. FICO’s “Ultra” score credit raises scores by importing data from your checking, banking, savings and money-market accounts into your credit report

• Millions of sensitive Facebook user records were left exposed. More than 540 million Facebook records — including users’ comments, likes, account names and more — were left exposed by a third-party company on an

• Following Equifax hack attack, federal power to punish needed. The hack attack victim provided a short narrative in the CFPB complaint: “My life has been a complete nightmare, for I have been denied

• How to save money on prescription drugs. You have insurance, so you assume you’re getting the best price for your prescription drugs. Not necessarily. Sometimes, because of high deductibles or