2007 Jun 01
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Dell Computer Announces 8,000 Layoffs - Dallas Texas’ Dell Computers has announced it will lay off more than 8,000 employees over the next year as part of an ongoing restructuring. Losing ......
2007 May 30
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Idaho's Bankruptcy Rate Improves - Idaho fell from 14th to 17th place among states with the highest rate of bankruptcy filings in 2006, according to industry data. The American Bankru......
2007 May 27
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Illinois Student Loan Guarantor May Help Bankrupt Former Students - One of the nation’s largest student loan guarantors, the Illinois Student Assistance Commission is considering forgiving interest and fees for borrow......
2007 May 23
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Credit Score Formula About to Change - Fair Isaac, the Minnesota company that scores consumer credit ratings, has announced it will tweak its formula to better predict defaults on loans. ......
2007 May 22
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Former Iowa CEO Pleads Guilty to Bankruptcy Fraud - Roger Waldner, former owner and CEO of H&W Motor Express, headquartered in Iowa, pled guilty to two counts of bankruptcy fraud. He now faces up to 1......
2007 May 15
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NPR Addresses Subprime Abuses - NPR recently interviewed past employees of subprime mortgage broker Ameriquest, and even with all of the information that's come during the current m......
2007 May 07
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Man Given One Year to Live, Now Faces Bankruptcy - A patient in Cornwall, England was told he had less than a year to live. In a strange case of illness induced bankruptcy, John Brandrick faces bankr......
2007 May 05
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Bankruptcy Desperation Leads to Florida Arrest - A Florida small business owner has been arrested on 17 counts of grand theft. While examining his books, a police detective found a $49,000 company ......
2007 May 03
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Personal Bankruptcies Spike in Central Florida - What is being called a “perfect storm” of financial troubles and higher prices have led to a spike personal-bankruptcy filings in Central Florida thi......
2007 Apr 30
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Find Out if Your Man has Declared Bankruptcy or Beat his Ex-Wife - Elizabeth Warren reports in her Talking Points Memo blog that corporate America equates bankruptcy with moral failings such as domestic violence. A ......
2007 Apr 04
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Another Subprime Mortgage Lender Falls - California-based subprime mortgage lender New Century has filed for bankruptcy protection, and announced plans to immediately terminate 3,200 employe......
2007 Mar 26
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Courts Recognize Dangers of Filing for Bankruptcy On Your Own - MarketplaceMoney has an interesting story about the pitfalls of filing for bankruptcy without representation. One U.S. Bankruptcy Court was so conce......
2007 Mar 12
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Subprime Lender, New Century, Bankruptcy Looms - New Century, a leading subprime mortgage lender, faces their own impending bankruptcy. After a stock price tumble of more than eighty percent in the......
2007 Mar 08
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More Evidence of Increasing Bankruptcy Filings - Bob Lawless at the Credit Slips blog has crunched some recent figures and come up with interesting information about the rate of bankruptcy filings i......
2007 Mar 07
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National Urban League President Unveils Plan to Increase Home Ownership - The National Urban League this week unveiled a six point "Homebuyer's Bill of Rights" intended to overcome what the organization sees as obstacles to......
2007 Feb 28
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Seller of Bankruptcy Software Held to be Bankruptcy Petition "Preparer" - The US Court of Appeals ruled that the owner of websites used to prepare bankruptcy petitions was a “bankruptcy petition preparer” and subject to obl......
2007 Feb 27
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Family of Injured Boy Faces Foreclosure - Today, a local news story from Linden, North Carolina illustrates the kind of abrupt changes unexpected medical expenses can visit on the lives of or......
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Former Arkansas Congressman Jailed Over Bankruptcy - Former Arkansas Congressman Tommy Robinson, who as Pulaski County sheriff once handcuffed inmates to a fence outside a state prison, was jailed along......
2007 Feb 22
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National Consumer Bankruptcy Project Conducting New Research - The Consumer Bankruptcy Project is back at work—the same people who provided the data demonstrating that approximately half of all bankruptcy petitio......
2007 Feb 20
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Credit Card Debt Rising Among Older Americans - The National Consumer Law Center reports that older Americans are increasingly using credit cards as a safety net to help fill the gap between fixed ......