Headline News Archive

2019

March

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• Airbnb has a hidden-camera problem. Airbnb’s rules allow cameras outdoors and in living rooms and common areas, but never in bathrooms or anywhere guests plan to sleep, including

• Wow Air abruptly shuts down, stranding passengers. In a travel alert signaling the abrupt collapse, Wow Air urged its passengers to look elsewhere to complete their trips, noting that other airlines may

• Government watchdog calls for more CFPB, FTC authority over credit bureaus. Equifax may be expecting sanctions from both the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission over the credit reporting agency

• HUD charges Facebook with housing discrimination. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said it is charging Facebook with housing discrimination, alleging its targeted advertising platform violates the Fair

• Protecting your Internet accounts keeps getting easier. Here’s how.. When Facebook revealed last week that it had stored millions of people’s account passwords in an insecure format, it underlined the importance of

• Cómo puedes pedir más ayuda financiera para la universidad. Si la oferta es menos de lo que esperabas, aquí te decimos qué hacer para que puedas recibir más Aceptan a

• Facebook enfrenta cargos de publicidad discriminatoria. El gobierno de Estados Unidos acusó el jueves a Facebook de discriminación por su sistema de publicidad dirigida por entregar anuncios con

• Trabajadores que pasan la edad de jubilación. Hay quienes deciden seguir trabajando después de los 66 ó 67 años de edad porque necesitan el dinero. Hay quienes lo hacen porque

• Kakebo, el centenario método japonés que te puede ayudar a ahorrar hasta un 35% de tu sueldo. Ahorrar es uno de esos propósitos que uno se hace, generalmente, cada vez que recibimos el sueldo. Y frecuentemente fracasamos: o no ahorramos

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• The definitive list of student protections rollbacks. Student loan debt is already treated much differently under the law as compared to other forms of consumer debt, making lenders and servicers more powerful,

• DeVos defends billions in education-spending cuts. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday defended her request to cut billions of dollars from the agency’s budget, as Democrats attacked her plan

• What happens if Obamacare is struck down?. The Affordable Care Act was already in peril after a federal judge in Texas invalidated the entire law late last year. But the

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• Uber and Lyft drivers strike over pay, working conditions. “I’m drowning in this gig economy," one striking driver told NBC News.

• Apple is launching a new credit card for iPhone owners. Backed by Goldman Sachs, the card is an obvious extension of Apple Pay.

• Cómo descifrar tu carta de oferta de ayuda financiera para la universidad. La terminología confusa y la falta de formularios estándares dificultan comprender el costo de la universidad. Mira cómo desglosar

• Poca$ razones para no tener cuentas con el banco. Los servicios certificados por Bank On son accesibles y flexibles con la identificación Muchas comisiones e incertidumbre sobre ellas y problemas con la

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• Ex-CFPB chief on Trump admin's consumer protection failures. Former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray took a strong stance against the Trump Administration’s approach to financial regulation.

• Una guía para que te perdonen tus préstamos estudiantiles. Más de 100 programas pueden ayudarte a borrar parte o la totalidad de tu deuda. Aquí te indicamos cómo averiguar si

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• Trading privacy for survival is another tax on the poor. Americans at the lower end of the economic ladder suffer from an ever-growing privacy divide, impacting more than just their personal dignity and autonomy.

• Americans are going bankrupt from getting sick. Doctors’ bills play a role in 60 percent of personal-bankruptcy filings.

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• 56-year-old Chinese woman was cheated $270k in online dating (Chinese) (Online dating, ). 網上情緣騙局幾乎天天上演，讓不少人上當；受害人不僅被騙了感情，也給了騙了金錢。加州屋崙一名華裔女子就是其中之一，被騙了超過25萬元，畢生積蓄付諸流水。

• Federal Reserve offers dim economic outlook. The Federal Reserve said that the United States economy was slowing more than it had previously thought and painted a far less rosy economic picture

• Social security scam is making the rounds. Tax season is a time rife with phone scammers as fraudulent callers attempt to cash in on citizens’ fear of the IRS, tax audits

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• Spectrum agrees to pay settlement for internet speed fraud (Chinese). 欺詐用戶案的賠償辦法；其中，部分適用用戶將獲得總額為6250萬元的賠償，另有部分適用用戶將獲得免費的視頻服務。

• How to appeal your college-bound child's student aid award. Negotiating for additional financial aid isn’t easy. Colleges are besieged with requests from financially strapped families with equally qualified students. Complain and you