Stimulus Tracking Web Site Could Aid in Frustrating Job Search

Traveling Without Credit

Smoking Your Bad Financial Habits to Stay Out of Economic Trouble

Mom and Pop Businesses: Are Lenders Labeling You Too Small to Succeed?

Don’t Waste Your Precious Unemployment Benefits

Five Secrets to a Successful Bankruptcy

Five Million Americans See an End to Unemployment Benefits by Summer 2010

More Credit Card Legislation on the Way? A Fed Proposal Wants to Limit Late Fees

Time to Get back on your Feet after Bankruptcy? Invest Carefully

Back on Track After Bankruptcy? So Where Next? These Cities May Help You Get Ahead

Our Great Recession 2.0: The 1,000-Mile Commute

Would You Move Your Money (If You Have Any)?

Enabling the Unemployed by Curtailing Employer’s Credit Checks

More Taxing Times for Those Trying to Get out of Debt

Unprecedented Unemployment: “8 Million Jobs Gone and They’re Not Coming Back”

The Means Test: It doesn’t mean everything

Overworked? Underpaid? Join the Club: The Middle Class

Cutting Back in Tough Times

Considering Bankruptcy? Here’s How to Get Your Questions Answered.

Is Your Next Best Step to Stop Paying Your Mortgage?

Bankruptcy Discharge Exceptions: What You Can’t Wipe Away and Why

Sacrifice, Selling Memories and Snakes: How Some are Scraping By in Their Own Great Depression

Retrieving Your Repossessed Car in Bankruptcy

Latest Projection: Jobless Rate Will Stay High For Next Two Years

What it Means to Be “The New Poor”

General Growth Properties, which owns several North Carolina Shopping Centers, is Enduring a Challenging Chapter 11

Apartment Owners’ Potential Bankruptcy Encapsulates State of Commercial Real Estate Market

How New Credit Card Rules Can Help You

Integrity of Film Franchise Gets Terminated in Bankruptcy Auction

Making Home Affordable Program May Push Many into Bankruptcy

Taxes can mean either more debt or more money; here are tips to help ensure the latter

Job losses continue to mount, according to latest Department of Labor report. Will bankruptcy numbers be far behind?

Another Way to Get Bill Collectors Off Your Back

Bad Ideas for the Bankruptcy Bound: Automatic Bill Payments

More Bad News for the Middle Class and How Bankruptcy Can Help

What Average Americans Can Learn From Lottery Winners & Pro Athletes

“Free credit reports” and Other Common Rip-offs.

Deficiency Judgements Come Back to Haunt Former Homeowners, Often Require Bankruptcy

CitiBank’s Free Checking Charade Gets Revealed by New York Attorney General

Protecting Your Tax Refunds in Bankruptcy

Will You Lose Your Rental Property in Bankruptcy?

Wake County Bankruptcies up Sharply from 2009

Some Bankruptcy Basics

Can Bankruptcy Keep You From Getting Evicted?

The Pro Se Option – For Serious Gamblers Only

Same-Sex Couples and the Bankruptcy Dilemma

If A Wealthy Developer Can Walk Away From The Mother Of All Underwater Mortgages, Why Can’t You?

The State of the Union for Average Americans Facing Foreclosure

Thoughts on Bankruptcy and Morality

Debate begins as San Diego mulls Chapter 9 option

Student Loan Debt is the Biggest National Debt Problem No One is Talking About

How Bankruptcy Can Break the Cycle of Marital Discord

Good Morning Bankruptcy: Air America Ends Live Programming as Company Files Chapter 7

How Bankruptcy Can Help You Pay Debts

New Year, New You, and A Good Reason To File Taxes Early

How can bankruptcy help me with tax debt?

Getting to know who your are dealing with – the Case Trustees

Is Mortgage Cramdown Back on the Table?

Giving to Haiti Doesn’t Mean Breaking the Bank

San Francisco’s Mayor Makes a Personal Plea to Just Say “No” to Payday Loans

Tough Times for Tar Heels: North Carolina Job Losses Reach Record Highs

Saying Goodbye to Income Tax Debt in Bankruptcy

High vacancy rates in the apartment market means savings in post-bankruptcy; home ownership can wait

Underwater in Your Mortgage?
….Maybe You Should Just Walk Away

Conquering Your Fear of Creditors…With Bankruptcy

Can A Bankruptcy Expert Shake Up the Financial World?

On the Eve of the Sundance Film Festival, Recession and Credit Limits are Hurting, and Helping, the Independent Filmmaker

Now They’re Sending in SWAT Teams?

Main Street Unemployment Contrasts Wall Street Perceptions of Improvement

Bad Ideas for the Bankruptcy Bound: Keeping Your Filing From Your Spouse

MediaNews’ Bankruptcy is the Latest Example of a Declining Print News Industry

401k Loans: Will They Survive Bankruptcy?

Too Big. Failed. And Back Again: How Bankruptcy Worked for GM (And Can Work for You Too)

Preventing Foreclosure: The Short Sale

Bankruptcy Bound in 2010? Time to Take on Your 2009 Tax Returns

Searching for Strength in Numbers: Bankruptcies Jump 32% in 2009

Lowering Your Car Payments in Bankruptcy

R.H. Donnelley Exits Bankruptcy; Faces an Even Stronger Internet

Will California Declare Bankruptcy in 2010?

“Too Big to Fail” May Spawn Bankruptcy Law Changes

Despite CARD Act, Credit Card Companies Are Finding New Ways to Come After Consumers

Senior Citizen Filing for Bankruptcy

Considering Alternatives To Bankruptcy

Dealing With Creditors: Debt Re-Aging

Should Private Medical History be Revealed During Bankruptcy? A Tough Case in Wisconsin is Bringing the Issue to Light

Are These Alternatives To Bankruptcy All They’re Cracked Up To Be?

Bankruptcy Filings Way Up, But Fewer of Them Are Chapter 13

After Bankruptcy: Finding a Great Place to Live

Business Bankruptcies Outpace Individual Filings

Chapter 12 Bankruptcy: Discharging Debts For Family Farmers and Fishermen

California City Looking to Come out of Bankruptcy

Newspaper Publishers Choose Bankruptcy Protection

Did debt collections lead to making a Tampa woman a widow. The results of the January trial may have a serious impact on the debt collection industry.

Foreclosure is a common fear for those in debt trouble. It shouldn’t be.

Bankruptcy and Charitable Donations

Dealing With Wage Garnishment and Hanging On To Your Paycheck

Can the Law Gag Your Lawyer?

Lenders Still Unwilling to Modify Mortgages, Homeowners Still Facing Foreclosure

Join the Crowd: 46 States Consider Bankruptcy in 2010

Chapter 12 Bankruptcy: How it Works For Working Families

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