Headline News Archive

2020

November

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• States demand refunds for unemployment money paid in error. In New Hampshire, more than 10,000 people who collected unemployment during the pandemic have received notices that they weren't entitled to benefits and had to

• Reasons to sign up for a health savings account. The money grows tax free, and can act as a sort of 401(k) for future health needs if invested. But just 6 percent of account holders

05

• A major win for Uber, Lyft, DoorDash in California. Facing mounting legal pressure for classifying their vast workforces as contractors rather than employees, gig economy companies put forth what they argued was a better

• New item on your medical bill: The ‘Covid’ fee. The coronavirus pandemic has made the practice of health care more costly as providers must wear protective gear and sanitize equipment more often, even as

• How to make sense of your (dozens of) credit scores. Businesses pay Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion to provide them with your credit scores—based on your credit history—to decide whether you're

04

• CA's Prop 22 results: Uber and DoorDash workers likely "contractors". Californians were set Tuesday to determine the future of ride-hailing and delivery apps, voting on whether drivers should be classified as employees or independent contractors.

• 12 state ballot measures that could affect your finances. It’s not just political office-seekers on the ballot on Tuesday. Seven states also feature state-level ballot measures that could affect your personal finances,

03

• A Wall Street tax that could lift many out of poverty exists but isn't collected. The Stock Transfer Tax takes a tiny percentage of every stock trade. Why does New York refund it back to banks?

October

30

• Regulators cleared most nursing homes of infection-control violations. Despite promises of ‘aggressive enforcement,’ over 40,000 residents died in homes that received a clean bill of health.

29

• It’s time to talk about Social Security. The pandemic has hastened the cash crunch’s arrival by wiping out jobs and the payroll taxes — Social Security’s dedicated source

28

• Hospitals reeling under 46% spike in Covid-19 patients. Hospitals around the United States are reeling from the rampaging spread of the coronavirus, many of them in parts of the country that initially had

• The recession is hitting women of color the hardest. As more data emerges about the coronavirus-induced economic crisis, it's clear women are bearing the brunt of it. Women are losing more jobs than

27

• Advice on getting your airline tickets refunded from people who did it. Most, but not all, domestic airlines have complied with refund requests for flights that had been officially canceled, as U.S. law requires.  But

26

• New wave of coronavirus cases strains hospital resources. With coronavirus hospitalizations surging in much of the United States and daily cases hitting all-time highs, the pandemic is putting new strain on

22

• CDC expands definition of who is a ‘close contact’. The CDC had previously defined a “close contact” as someone who spent at least 15 consecutive minutes within six feet of a confirmed coronavirus

20

• Why your dental bills could go up. Millions of Americans are delaying dental appointments over concerns about coronavirus infection, and that's likely to trigger increased fees for patients, job cuts

16

• Medicare open enrollment is coming. Medicare’s annual open enrollment period begins Oct. 15 and, given the COVID-19 pandemic, financial planners are urging beneficiaries to review and choose the plan

15

• How to pay less than your insurance copay. I’ve found a simple way to cut the cost of my family’s prescription drugs. For certain refills, we skip the insurance,

14

• Judges questions Uber, Lyft arguments in employment case. California appellate judges raised questions about Uber and Lyft’s arguments in a landmark employment case, weighing whether to uphold a lower-court ruling that

12

• White House pivots again on stimulus negotiations. Trump aides now call for Congress to repurpose unused small-business funding, the latest in a series of approaches to a relief bill.

06

• Veterans saddled with high medical debt. You might assume that military veterans get basically free healthcare from the Department of Veterans Affairs. But for thousands of former and current service members,

01

• Diabetics dispute Trump's boasts he made insulin so cheap. Early in Tuesday night’s presidential debate, President Trump claimed he had drastically lowered the price of insulin. “I’m getting it

September

30

• Administration’s new coronavirus tests plagued by confusion. The new antigen tests are cheap and easy to use. But the White House’s hands-off approach in distributing them has sown confusion and

• Disney lays off 28,000 as coronavirus slams its theme-park business. The move demonstrates the devastating toll the coronavirus has taken on Disney’s core business, its employees and the leisure industry in general.

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• Dems focus Supreme Court battle on fate of health-care law. President Trump attacked the Affordable Care Act as “terrible” on Sunday, as Democrats tried to make the fate of the law under a