After Trump proposed credit card interest rate cap last fall, senators introduce bill to follow through
Two senators have introduced a bill that aims to fulfill one of President Donald Trump’s campaign trail pledges, a cap on credit card interest rates.
'This is what we're going to dismantle?': Massachusetts lawmakers react to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau shutdown
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employees demanded Monday to be let into the agency's Washington, D.C., building after Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency essentially shut down the ...
Digital driver licenses could be available in NC soon. Are they safe?
North Carolina is beginning the process to implement mobile driver licenses, joining a dozen other states using or studying ...
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The link between finances and loneliness in older adults
Older adults who didn’t have enough savings to cover emergency expenses during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic faced another surprising problem: higher levels of loneliness.
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Businesses might lose the tax-collection allowance
The South Dakota Department of Revenue charges municipalities a flat 1% administrative fee for handling municipal sales taxes. Businesses represented by the South ...
How Wisconsin’s unbanked population compares to the rest of the U.S.
About 4.2% of Americans were considered unbanked in 2023, according to survey data the FDIC released in November. In ...
Know what charities do with the money before giving
By Rosemary Heins, University of Minnesota Extension Minnesotans provide strong financial support to many organizations that enhance the state’s livability. Most charities provide valuable ...
Three companies promising to lower credit card interest rates sued by state
Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson today filed three lawsuits against separate companies that promised consumers they would lower the interest rates on their credit cards in exchange for ...
Editorial: One SC county cracked down on its profligate sheriff. What about the rest?
Free-spending sheriff reined in by County Council. He also hired his son as deputy, attacked Helene FEMA workers, hid records ...
Banks opposing state’s landmark credit card fees law keep up arguments in court, Springfield
Financial services companies in Illinois are fighting a landmark state law on credit card fees in court and in Springfield as ...
Challenges to Illinois’ pending interchange law continue to play out in court
(The Center Square) – Illinois’ controversial Interchange Fee Prohibition Act has taken another turn in court. The law ...
Woman is accused of stealing from a TV reporter found dead at his hotel before the Super Bowl
Police are investigating the death of 27-year-old television reporter Adan Manzano, who was in New Orleans to cover the Super ...