LSS ‘bootcamp’ to help college grads manage debt – Sioux Falls Argus Leader

LSS Center for Financial Resources logo(Photo: Lutheran Social Services) Student loan debt is the norm for Augustana University junior Lydia Simmons. “I don’t know anybody that’s coming out of college without loans,” Simmons said. The 20-year-old philosophy, Spanish and music student’s plans on owing $15,000 after she graduates, which is about half of what the average…

SoLocal Group: Precisions Concerning the Financial Restructuring Plan – Business Wire (press release)

BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, France–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Regulatory News: SoLocal Group (Paris:LOCAL) brings the following precisions concerning the financial restructuring plan voted in the Extraordinary General Shareholders Meeting of 15 December 2016 and which now allows the implementation of the Conquer 2018 plan: The full year 2016 results of SoLocal Group will be published on Friday 3 February 2017 (before…

Seven Years After Devastating Earthquake, Haiti Struggles with Debt and Hurricane Matthew Recovery – Common Dreams (press release)

WASHINGTON – Haiti’s debt approaches $2 billion dollars as it recovers from Hurricane Matthew and remembers the devastating earthquake that shattered the country seven years ago. After the 2010 earthquake, most of Haiti’s debt was wiped out following a campaign led by Jubilee USA. $300 million in Haiti’s debts were cancelled through a specially created International…