Chicagoans with student debt are feeling whiplash and confusion under the Trump administration. While President Donald Trump’s predecessor canceled $183 billion in student loans for more than 5 million Americans, Trump has called those actions illegal and is removing pathways to affordable monthly payments and loan forgiveness. Earlier this month Trump’s Department of Education restarted…
Democratic Party backs debt relief and support fund for self-employed in Korea Chosunbiz Read the original article here
This month I became the first physician in my family. Well, actually, I might have a third cousin somewhere in Michigan who is a psychiatrist. Regardless, I am the first physician in my family that we keep regular contact with. An accomplishment, if I may be so bold. My mother prepared a big barbeque spread…
SINGAPORE – In order to clear his gambling debts to a friend, a man agreed to help the friend recover money from another debtor. Wu Zhibing, 36, and the friend, Lin Mei, 42, came up with a plan to lure the debtor into a warehouse and force her to pay her debt. They managed to…
Getty Images As part of a new Channel 4 documentary, Michael Sheen has used £100,000 of his own money to write off £1m of people from South Wales’ debts Sheen said he did not have £100,000 to “throw around” and therefore wanted the project to be “effective”. Despite initial doubts, an encounter with a woman…
THE Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) yesterday launched a debt relief programme under the Tobacco Inputs Credit Scheme (TICS), offering renewed… To access this post, you must purchase a subscription. Please click the button below to visit our subscriptions page to select a package. Subscriptions Read the original article here
Diverting Development: The G20 and External Debt Service Burden in Africa Cape Town, South Africa. Photo by Matthias Mullie via Unsplash. In many ways the African continent has been poised for take-off. The continent is home to many of the key ingredients for a successful 21st century economy with 60 percent of the world’s solar…
Credit counseling can help improve your financial health — and there are a few specific ways it helps with your credit card debt, in particular. Getty Images There’s a specific kind of stress that comes with credit card debt: the kind that creeps in at the checkout counter and then shows up in your mail…
Issue of Debt Business Wire Read the original article here
Getting out of debt may require you to take steps that feel counterintuitive on the surface. Getty Images Credit card interest rates are high. Credit card debt balances are high. And the chances of either being reduced materially anytime soon look unlikely. Even with news last week that credit card balances fell in the first…