HAMP Fails To Tackle Unemployment Driven Foreclosures – Can Proposed Program Do The Job?
One million Americans have exhausted all of their federal and state unemployment benefits and many of them, now known as 99ers, are facing foreclosure. HAMP, the foreclosure prevention program that was suppose to take...
The House and Senate Fails To Pass Unemployment Extension
Because the House and Senate have failed to win enough support for the unemployment extension, two million Americans could be cut off from unemployment benefits by July 10th. The passing of the unemployment extension...
High Unemployment Expected To Continue Until 2015
The unemployment rate rose to 9.9 percent in April, up from 9.7 in March and many experts expect the unemployment rate to remain high until 2015. Currently there are 15.3 million unemployed Americans as...
Will Dallas Loan Program Help Stem The Tide Of Job Losses And Corporate Bankruptcy?
The Dallas City Council has approved a $1 million loan program that is designed to assist small businesses in southern and western Dallas get capital for growth. The program, which will provide $1 million...
How To Prevent Job Loss Related Financial Disaster
The official national unemployment rate for the country is 9.7 percent. Millions of Americans are out of work and trying to figure out how to survive without a job. One of the biggest casualties...
Realities Debtors Should Consider Before Settling Debt
With the unemployment rate still above 9 percent, many debtors have found themselves unemployed for one or two years. Unfortunately for the unemployed debtor, daily expenses remain and can eventually exhaust the debtor's savings,...
Three Reasons Why Waiting For Debts To Disappear Is A Bad Financial Strategy
It can happen to the best of us-we lose a job, fall on hard times and our bills go unpaid. But many of us opt to simply ignore our debts instead of coming up...