Nearly half of borrowers do not shop for a mortgage The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released its newest consumer tool “Owning a Home” to help spur homeowner education. This is a part of the CFPB Know Before you Owe mortgage [...]

Thousands of New Yorkers have enrolled in the city's new municipal identification card program since it launched Monday, and more than 50,000 others have booked appointments to learn how it can give them access to key city services they were [...]

It’s hard not to be tempted by the commercials for for-profit colleges that jump out from the television sets and subway stations. “Your life is passing you by,” they scream. “All you gotta do is pick up the phone!” Enrollment [...]

City to apply ‘First Look NYC’ Hiring to procurement, moving New Yorkers to front of the line applying for work at City contractors and economic development projects Training programs to help up to 30,000 New Yorkers per year secure middle-skill [...]

It is the season of twinkling lights and glittering evergreens, festive parties and holiday bonuses. But not for José Gutiérrez. He works as a busboy in Manhattan, clearing plates and wiping tables at an Italian restaurant for about $450 a [...]

This week, Robin Hood and Columbia University's Population Research Center announced the release of the Fall 2014 Poverty Tracker, the second in a series of reports designed to provide a more dynamic picture of how people cope with poverty and hardship [...]