Posts Tagged ‘U.S. Department’

Help with Certification Cost Available in IL

Latest Personal Loan Offers: The Illinois Department of Agriculture says it will help organic farmers and businesses that handle organic products recover part of the cost of their certification. The department said Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture gave it a $60,000 grant to help with the cost of USDA certification. The money will [...]

New U.S. Unemployment Claims Drop To 421,000

Linda Young – AHN News Writer Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – New claims for unemployment compensation dropped to 421,000 for the week ending Dec. 4, a decrease of 17,000 claims from the week before, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Not all jobless workers are insured by the unemployment compensation program. The advance [...]

Congress Hears Pentagon Plans For Improving Financial Accountability

Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is pursuing near- and long-term goals to improve financial accountability, according to a testimony to Congress delivered Wednesday from the department’s top financial official. Under Secretary of Defense Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer Robert Hale told a [...]

Expanding Federal Regulation of Private Student Loans

In a vote last month that fell for the most part along party lines, the House Financial Services Committee approved the creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency, which will expand federal oversight of nonfederal private student loans. At the same time, the committee rejected a proposal that would have included school-sponsored “gap loans” under [...]

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