Latest Personal Loan Offers: Linda Young – AHN News Writer Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – Consumers decreased their credit card debt by 11 percent last year, with the average debt load declining in every state. That information came from a report released Tuesday by credit tracking and financial education website CreditKarma.com. It analyzed data [...]
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Consumer credit card debt down
January 18th, 2012 
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December 13th, 2011 davidguide Matthew Borghese – AHN News Contributor Tampa, FL, United States (AHN) – It’s beginning to be a tough week for newspapers, with one major publication announcing a round of lay-offs, while another publisher announces bankruptcy. Media General announced Monday that it will let go 165 staffers from the Tampa (FL)Tribune newspaper, TBO.com, and other community [...]
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December 1st, 2011 davidguide Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – The United States-European Union summit here ended without any fiscal help emerging from the U.S. as ambassadors from both sides provided a read-out of the meeting while the host president brushed aside chances of any news-making headlines emerging. President Barack Obama, along with [...]
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October 26th, 2011 davidguide Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The White House on Tuesday announced a series of measures including plans to help ease the loan payment burden of college students defining its efforts, “to make college more affordable and to make it even easier for students to repay their federal student [...]
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July 22nd, 2011 davidguide Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – There was no word on the outcome of the Wednesday evening meetings in the White House where Democratic congressional leaders and the top two House Republicans met with President Barack Obama for separate meetings according to officials. With the White House and the [...]
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June 29th, 2011 davidguide Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – President Barack Obama on Wednesday asked U.S. lawmakers to forego their vacations and instead concentrate on solving the nation’s problems, especially debt reduction, as he did in the recent past dealing with bin Laden and others. Addressing journalists at a press conference in [...]
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June 24th, 2011 davidguide With a growing number of people having trouble qualifying for traditional loans, a number of alternative loan products have gained popularity, mostly to help people with debt relief, or consolidation loans. There are three types of loans in particular that have become very popular since the credit crunch and each one has costs that the [...]
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June 22nd, 2011 davidguide Vittorio Hernandez – AHN News Athens, Greece (AHN) – Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou survived a confidence vote on Wednesday after all 155 legislators from his Socialist Party supported the embattled government. The votes met the 151-vote requirement of the country’s 300-seat Parliament. There were 143 lawmakers who voted against the government and two abstentions. [...]
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June 17th, 2011 davidguide Vittorio Hernandez – AHN News Sacramento, CA, United States (AHN) – California Governor Jerry Brown (D) vetoed on Thursday the state budget approved on Wednesday by Democratic state legislators. Brown explained that he vetoed the budget because it was not a balanced solution to California’s $26-billion budget deficit. The governor said the proposed budget document [...]
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June 14th, 2011 davidguide Vittorio Hernandez – AHN News Athens, Greece (AHN) – Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s reduced Greece’s credit ratings to CCC from B on Monday. The three-notch cut made Greece the world’s least credit worthy nation. S&P explained that it had to cut Athens’ rating because of the chances that the country would likely default on [...]
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