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New Job Perk Could Save Grads 3 Years of Student Loan Payments

Mar 3, 2016, 3:17 PM 0

By Victoria Simons & Anna Helhoski NerdWallet Employers nationwide are beginning to offer a new perk to their increasingly indebted millennial workforce: assistance in paying down student loans. A new study by NerdWallet found undergraduate student debt holders…

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New report highlights abusive practices of some banks in how they charge overdraft fees

Jul 30, 2013, 5:22 PM 0

LatinaLista — Latinos have a love-hate history with banks. A prior story on Latina Lista revealed that nearly half of all Latino households operate outside the traditional banking system, and roughly 15 percent have never even possessed a bank…

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No more excuses for bank-leery Latinos

Jul 11, 2013, 1:54 PM 0

By Odysseas Papadimitriou LatinaLista More than 28% of all U.S. households are either unbanked or underbanked, according to a study from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and Hispanics are among the consumer cohorts that are most likely to…