Headline News Archive

2019

July

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• How much does it cost to freeze your eggs?. For women who want to extend their fertility, freezing their eggs is an increasingly popular way to make that happen. Egg freezing, or oocyte cryopreservation,

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• U.S. states urge CFPB not to dilute rule that limits bank overdraft fees. The attorneys general of New York and 23 other states plus Washington, D.C. have urged the Trump administration not to roll back a decade-old federal

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• Why the flight to the hospital is more costly than ever. Air ambulance rates in the United States are soaring. The cost of a medical ride in a helicopter or airplane climbed about 60 percent from 2012

• Borrowing for college just got a little cheaper. For the 2019-2020 academic year, undergraduate students will pay 4.53 percent in interest on new Stafford loans, down from 5.05 percent. Graduate students will see the interest

• Ways a housing counselor can help a first-time home buyer. Housing counselors review your credit score and help you create an action plan to deal with any discrepancies in your credit report. Counselors debunk home-buying

• Enough is enough. Let’s abolish overdraft fees. How about: If a customer doesn’t have enough money in his or her account, the transaction doesn’t go through. Period. Or

• 10 medical myths we should stop believing. Fish oil does not reduce the risk of heart disease.  But in a trial involving 12,500 people at risk for heart trouble, daily omega-3 supplements

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• DeVos repeals rule that polices for-profit colleges. The Trump administration revoked an Obama-era rule that aimed to terminate federal funding to for-profit college programs that consistently left graduates with high student debt.

• 5 tips on managing the boomerang generation. The “boomerang generation” has been around for two decades, and it does not appear to be going away anytime soon. Young adults today

June

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• How many credit bureaus are in the U.S.?. In addition to those large bureaus, dozens of other consumer-reporting companies, sometimes called specialty agencies, gather and sell personal data to landlords, employers and other

• At 75, taking care of mom, 99. Because of longer life spans, many adult children and their parents are now “aging together.”

• When hospitals sue for unpaid bills it's 'ruinous' for patients. Not every hospital sues over unpaid bills, but a few sue a lot.

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• How to fight the spies in your Chrome browser. The main lesson: If Google is a data vampire, Chrome is its fangs. For most people, not using a browser made by an advertising company

• Canceling student debt doesn't make problems disappear. Both Senator Bernie Sanders and Senator Elizabeth Warren, who is sponsoring a separate bill, have proposed making all undergraduate programs at public colleges and universities

• Crackdown targets robocallers. Federal and state authorities announced that they had targeted dozens of robocallers accused of placing an estimated 1 billion spam calls to consumers, a crackdown they

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• Three mistakes when using air conditioning. Reasons why summer air-conditioning costs soar that have nothing to do with the hot weather.

• How e-commerce sites manipulate you. Sometimes, the methods are clearly deceptive, but often they walk a fine line between manipulation and persuasion: Think of the brightly colored button that encourages

• 2020 presidential candidates on student debt, college costs. About 45 million Americans owe a staggering $1.6 trillion in student debt. More and more young people are graduating college looking ahead to decades of loan repayment.

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• Here's some money advice: Just buy the coffee. An industry of experts exists to advise us on how to spend our money. Some of those experts are truly on your side and sincerely

• Eliminating student debt would be a terrific economic stimulus. The student debt crisis reentered the news cycle Monday (has it ever really gone away?) when Sen. Bernie Sanders released a proposal to cancel all

• Student debt scams flourish with rise in robocalls. College graduates across the country saddled with student debt have become prime targets for "bad actors" eager for a piece of the student

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• People are ripping off seniors—and it's making them sick. Seniors, and the people who take care of them, need to be aware of their vulnerability to financial scammers. Elder financial abuse is rising steeply

• Your Maid of Honor is not made of cash. For many people, being part of a wedding party can strain their savings, not to mention their relationship with the couple. And as if that

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• No espere que los tiempos compartidos aumenten de valor. Estoy tratando de deshacerme de mi tiempo compartido. ¿Tiene alguna sugerencia para mí, como madre soltera, cómo puedo ganar dinero con

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• Zuckerberg asks people to trust Facebook's new cryptocurrency. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has personally promised that his company's proposed new digital wallet, Calibra, and Libra cryptocurrency will not put peoples' money or