Archive for June, 2009
Paid family leave begins
Donna Wood knew she lucked out when her employer, a New York financial services company, gave her full pay while she was on maternity leave.
Card Issuers Are Scaring Consumers
Card Issuers Are Scaring Consumers
Chuck Jaffe: Card issuers are scaring consumers
With the government changing its rules about credit cards, the card issuers are changing the terms of their agreements with consumers. But consumers aren’t changing a thing.
Economy takes its toll on Amish
Freeman Wingard is Amish, but he spent the last decade living quite differently than the popular characterization of the Amish as farmers, their plows hitched to enormous draft horses as they eschewed influences of the outside world.
H&R Block Fiscal 2009 Swings to Profit
H&R Block saw its first profitable year in four years, after the tax prep giant shed its money-losing mortgage operation.
Organize Debt Consolidation Quickly and Easily
– Until recently, Ken Goins of Woodland Hills, Calif. was like most Americans — he carried a balance on several credit cards
Only six families have benefited from mortgage rescue scheme, says minister
Only six families have so far been saved from losing their homes by the government’s mortgage rescue scheme, a minister admitted today.
Economy takes its toll on Indiana Amish
SHIPSHEWANA, Ind.
Rescue Scheme ‘building a crisis’
Government schemes to help homeowners avoid repossession are “building up a crisis” which will take hold in the next two years, Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Vince Cable has warned.
Officials seek ways to offset $1.9 million deficit
Amherst Town Supervisor Satish Mohan called a special board meeting on Monday to try to andbrainstorm ways to close a potential year-end deficit of $1.9 million. Many town department heads, however, were not enthused by the prospect of recommending cuts to departments they already consider to be underfunded.
