Tag: financial consumer

March 12, 2020 Market Drops Hit Those Who Don’t Invest Photo by T. Charles Erickson How fitting that I would see the play “Sweat” on…

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March 31, 2020 Boomers Facing Tough Financial Decisions For baby boomers who thought they were on the path to retirement, the road is shifting beneath…

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April 14, 2020 More Cuts to 401k Matches are Coming To conserve cash, some employers are suspending contributions to their workers’ 401(k)s. And if this…

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April 23, 2020 COVID-19 Could Increase US Inequality A growing number of Americans can’t pay their rent, and the queues forming outside food banks hint…

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May 5, 2020 Layoffs Fray Health Insurance Network The majority of Americans who have health insurance – some 150 million workers – get their coverage…

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May 7, 2020 Parents Cut Back Aid to Kids in Downturn When the economy tips into a recession, as it is doing in reaction to…

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May 12, 2020 Estimate Your Unemployment Check Here Florida’s unemployment office, after denying benefits to some 260,000 residents, said that it made a mistake. From…

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May 19, 2020 The Profound Financial Pain of COVID-19 It was hard to miss the news last year that four out of 10 people couldn’t…

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June 4, 2020 Money, Virus Angst Combine for Low-Paid There’s COVID-19 stress, and then there’s money stress. The combination of the two is becoming too…

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