Credit Card Interest Rate Scams: FTC Warns Consumers

In a new consumer alert, Credit Card Interest Rate Reduction Scams, the FTC says consumers have just as much clout with their credit card issuers as these companies do.  It urges consumers to avoid paying middlemen, and negotiate directly with the credit card companies.  Credit Card Interest Rate Scams: FTC Warns Consumers

IRS Reaches Out to Millions of Employers on Benefits of New Health Care Tax Credit

The Internal Revenue Service this week began mailing postcards to more than four million small businesses and tax-exempt organizations to make them aware of the benefits of the recently-enacted small business health care tax credit. IRS Reaches Out to Millions of Employers on Benefits of New Health Care Tax Credit

Credit Repair and Mortgage Relief Service: Marketers Banned from Selling Services

The court order prohibits the credit repair companies and their owners from selling credit repair services, and it bans the loan modification companies and their individual owners from selling mortgage loan modification and foreclosure relief services. Credit Repair and Mortgage Relief Service: Marketers Banned from Sellings

More Women are Graduate Degree Holders than Men, Ages 25-29

The U.S. Census Bureau reported today more women than men are expected to occupy professions such as doctors, lawyers and college professors as they represent approximately 58 percent of young adults, Ages 25 to 29, More Women are Graduate Degree Holders than Men, Ages 25-29

Toyota to Pay $16.375 Million Civil Fine

Toyota Motor Corporation agreed to pay a $16.375 million fine - the largest fine permitted by law - for failing to notify the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of a dangerous pedal defect for almost four months:Toyota to Pay $16.375 Million Civil Fine