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WASHINGTON — U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders released a plan on Saturday to eliminate $81 billion in Americans’ existing medical debt, going beyond his Democratic White House rivals and expanding on his signature proposal for a government-run health…
September 21, 2019 – SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Thursday, as part of a coalition of 28 attorneys general, denounced the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s…
By: Charlene Crowell A new survey asked likely voters across the country what they thought of a proposed debt collection rule. The response was strong and broad opposition.…
Myths and misinformation about credit scores, credit reports, and credit repair are extremely common. Unfortunately, many people believe these myths, and their credit suffers as a…
DeAnn Komanecky @deannsk Thursday Sep 19, 2019 at 5:52 PM A debt collection service has been hired by the city to collect up to an estimated $6.6 million in delinquent utility…
Source: Twenty/20 College graduates in 2018 are even deeper in debt than prior classes, signalling that the student loan crisis is swelling. Two in 3 college…
FILE PHOTO A spike in student loan borrowing in the last decade has pushed the bill owed among North Carolinians to $44 million according to the…
On September 13, the CFPB released its summer 2019 Supervisory Highlights, which outlines its supervisory and enforcement actions in the areas of automobile loan origination, credit…
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Linda Lacewell, Department of Financial Services. New York’s financial regulatory agency is asking the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to pump the brakes on a proposed…
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