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Tax Preparers Targeting Poor with High Fees

In December, they begin showing up in empty storefronts in neighborhoods where empty storefronts are easy to come by. Cars with phone numbers brightly displayed on the doors roll down the streets, and signs pop up along the sidewalks promising [...]

Tax Preparers Targeting Poor with High Fees2023-04-11T08:13:00-04:00

Low-Wage Workers Are Finding Poverty Harder to Escape

New York Times, March 6 2014 At 7 in the morning, they are already lined up — poultry plant workers, housekeepers, discount store clerks — to ask for help paying their heating bills or feeding their families. And once Metropolitan [...]

Low-Wage Workers Are Finding Poverty Harder to Escape2023-04-11T08:12:32-04:00

A Call to Give Consumers Their Credit Scores Free

New York Times, February 27, 2014 In its new role as consumer credit watchdog, the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday urged credit card companies to give customers free copies of their credit scores — crucial pieces of financial [...]

A Call to Give Consumers Their Credit Scores Free2023-04-11T08:11:43-04:00

Playing the Odds on Saving

Americans’ lack of savings has become a crisis. Our confidence that we’ve got enough saved for retirement is at historically low levels, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute’s annual Retirement Confidence Survey. More than a quarter of Americans have saved [...]

Playing the Odds on Saving2023-04-11T08:09:18-04:00
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