Headline News Archive

2018

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• EEUU penalizaría a inmigrantes que usen crédito fiscal. El gobierno del presidente Donald Trump evalúa una propuesta que penalizaría a los inmigrantes que acepten casi cualquier tipo de prestación pública, incluyendo un popular…

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• Facebook introduces central page for privacy and security settings. Facebook said it will roll out a centralized system for its users to control their privacy and security settings in response to an outcry over…

• Dept. of Education fail: Teachers lose grants, forced to repay in loans. America needs teachers committed to working with children who have the fewest advantages in life. So for a decade the federal government has offered grants…

• Facebook sued for allegedly allowing housing advertisers to discriminate. In the lawsuit, filed in federal court in New York City, several fair housing groups accuse Facebook of allowing landlords and real estate companies to illegally tailor…

• Redlining, banned 50 years ago, is still hurting minorities today. Racial discrimination in mortgage lending in the 1930s shaped the demographic and wealth patterns of American communities today, a new study shows, with 3 out of 4…

• Limited English proficiency is a barrier to homeownership. Looking at data at the zip code level from the Urban Institute and Sloan Foundation’s Administrative Data Research Facility, we found a considerable gap in…

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• Grocery wars turn small chains into battlefield casualties. Amazon’s $13 billion purchase of Whole Foods in June added a sense of urgency to the competition to feed American families, raising the prospect that…

• Congress wants to drag Google and Twitter into Facebook’s privacy crisis. A panel of Senate lawmakers aims to grill the top executives of Facebook, Google and Twitter next month, the latest indication that the controversy surrounding…

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• Tax planners look for loopholes amid uncertainty over new law. Professionals and their tax lawyers are seeking ways to remake their operations as a result of the massive tax overhaul passed in December by Congress.

• Student loan forgiveness program gets $350M boost to aid borrowers. Thousands of U.S. student loan borrowers who work as teachers, police officers, nurses, or in other public service jobs may soon benefit from a $350 million one-time expansion…

• Would students trade retirement benefits for student debt relief?. If you're keeping a list of all the ways the world Americans have known could come crashing down on our heads, here are a couple more:…

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• When it comes to donating money, whom do you trust?. Charitable donors are often altruistic by nature. But their idealism may blind them to potential faults in the groups they support.

• If media giants grow, so may your bills. The government doesn’t want you to pay too much to watch your shows. That’s why the Justice Department says it is challenging the proposed merger…

• How you know it’s time to get rid of your old car. When it comes to people’s budgets, the cost of transportation — mostly the ownership of an automobile — is typically the second largest expense behind…

• You may soon be able to declare bankruptcy on your student loans. Currently, it is nearly impossible to have your student debt forgiven during bankruptcy — but that may soon change. In February, the Department of Education…

• Pasantías pagadas, un buen comienzo profesional. La alcaldía de Nueva York va a empezar a pagar a sus pasantes después de que una publicación de la ciudad, Crain´s, preguntara por qué…

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• Chase rarely lends to people of color in DC – and it’s probably legal. Across the street from the White House is the U.S. capital’s only outpost of the nation’s largest bank – tucked away on the ninth floor…

• The scary truth that Cambridge Analytica understands. Cambridge Analytica, a London-based data firm that sold its services to political campaigns, has been thrust into the spotlight this week thanks to a number…

• Do financial advisers have to act in your interest? Maybe. Within the last month, two financial-service providers were accused of deceiving retirement account customers. It isn’t easy for consumers to figure out what kind of…

• Here’s what Congress is stuffing into its $1.3 trillion spending bill. Congressional negotiators reached a tentative agreement Wednesday night on a $1.3 trillion federal spending bill. Here are some key highlights: Overall spending: Defense spending generally…

• Facebook will audit thousands of apps after ‘breach of trust’. Mark Zuckerberg said the company would investigate thousands of apps that used large amounts of data at the time. He said that Facebook will give…

• ¿Cómo abrir una cuenta de banco si eres inmigrante en Estados Unidos?. Es más sencillo de lo que parece Abrir una cuenta de banco en Estados Unidos puede intimidar  a los nuevos inmigrantes, pero en realidad es…

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• How to protect your Facebook privacy—or delete yourself completely. If the revelations that Cambridge Analytica acquired the records of 50 million Facebook users has you wondering how to protect your own personal information, you…

• AT&T-Time Warner: How the biggest antitrust trial in years could play out. The Justice Department’s case to block AT&T and Time Warner’s $85 billion blockbuster merger heads to trial this week.  The deal, if approved, would create…

• Facebook faces growing pressure over data and privacy inquiries. Federal regulators and state prosecutors are opening investigations into Facebook. Politicians in the United States and Europe are calling for its chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg,…