News

2020

August

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• American could control the pandemic by Oct. if we start now.. Scientists have learned a lot about this coronavirus since the first cases were reported in the United States earlier this year. Just because America has largely bungled taking firm action so far doesn’t

• Dems assail Trump actions on payroll tax, jobless aid as unworkable. Trump administration officials defended the president’s moves and said they were necessary because Democrats wouldn’t compromise on a broad coronavirus relief package.

• Miles de listados en línea están violando la nueva ley de alquiler a corto plazo de L.A.. Más de un año después de que L.A. restringiera la renta de casas para estancias cortas, muchos anfitriones de alquiler parecen ignorar la nueva ley.

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• The $600 unemployment aid debate, explained. The typical unemployed American was receiving about $930 a week from late March to late July. That has now been cut to about $330 a week.

• Wave of evictions expected as moratoriums end in many states. Around 30 state moratoriums have expired since May, according to The Eviction Lab at Princeton University. On top of that, some tenants were already encountering illegal evictions even with the moratoriums.

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• Interest rates are low, but loans are harder to get. Here’s why. It’s not unusual for lenders to tighten the credit reins during a downturn, but the current situation has made it especially challenging for them to get an accurate read on consumers’ financial

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• Student-parents struggle to juggle college, work and childcare. The pandemic and all of its health, financial and logistical challenges are amplifying the obstacles to earning a degree that student-parents face under normal circumstances, experts say.  For these parents, many of whom work,

• Corrupt for-profit nursing homes received millions in pandemic relief. For-profit nursing home providers that have faced accusations of Medicare fraud and kickbacks, labor violations or widespread failures in patient care received hundreds of millions of dollars in “no strings attached” coronavirus

• Evictions to hit ‘unprecedented’ level as federal relief stalls. Without federal intervention, housing experts and advocates warn of an unprecedented wave of evictions in the coming months, and one far more devastating than the round that came after the 2008 foreclosure crisis.

• Interest rates are lower. But loans are harder to get. Why?. The economic crisis caused by the pandemic has driven interest rates to rock-bottom levels, meaning there has hardly been a better time to borrow. But with tens of millions of people out of work

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• Data is being collected from your phone and used to score you. Operating in the shadows of the online marketplace, specialized tech companies you’ve likely never heard of are tapping vast troves of our personal data to generate secret "surveillance scores”—digital

• Thanks to Trump, Consumer Bureau now helps companies prey on consumers. President Trump's choice for Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) director—the top role of the government’s most powerful consumer advocacy organization—is a demonstration of the contempt he and Republicans

July

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• The Coronavirus will ruin your credit score. Banking interests have sought to block a measure that would temporarily ban negative items from appearing on credit reports for the duration of the pandemic. “Consumers that lose their jobs or are economically devastated

• The Coronavirus housing boom. You might assume that in the middle of a pandemic, when businesses are closing, and one in five Americans of working age are now unemployed, and everyone's staying at home that the one market

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• El COVID afecta la historia de crédito. El 33% de quienes usan tarjetas de crédito ha hecho algo durante la pandemia que perjudicará su puntuación.

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• The IRS still hasn’t ironed out all the glitches from the first stimulus check. Disabled federal beneficiaries are suing the Treasury and IRS for shutting them out of the $500 stimulus payment intended for dependent children.

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• Will Congress rush narrow relief bill to avoid unemployment aid lapse?. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said Sunday that Congress might have to pass a narrow piece of legislation this week to ensure enhanced unemployment benefits don’t

• One home, a lifetime of impact. In 1936 a widowed black woman bought a home and it changed her family’s financial worth for generations. Today homeownership rates of black people lag even further behind whites’ rates, affecting their ability

• Flowcharts are helping older adults understand estate planning. As older adults face mortality during the pandemic, lawyers and wealth advisers are using color-coded documents and flowcharts to help them understand estate planning.

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• The $600 unemployment boost is ending. Here's how to access cash now.. A $600 boost in weekly unemployment benefits will effectively end after this weekend, barring an extension from Congress. There are ways Americans can make up for the lost income. Unfortunately, many involve trade-offs or sacrifices that