Just when we thought we had heard it all, the payday loan industry has a brand new trick up its sleeve. With the unemployment rate over 9 percent and millions of Americans on extended unemployment, many companies in the payday loan industry are now accepting unemployment checks as proof of income. That's right, unemployed Americans [...]
Finding fast cash for emergencies can be tough especially if you don't have savings and lack good credit. That's why so many people choose to take out payday loans, car title loans, tax refund anticipation loans and even purposely overdraft their bank account. But using any of the aforementioned methods to get fast cash could [...]
Survival Tips for the Long-Term Unemployed One of the biggest problems facing Americans is the prospect of long-term unemployment. Recently the number of first time applications for unemployment insurance rose by 24,000 pushing the number of initial requests for unemployment insurance to 484,000. Many of those unemployed Americans will eventually join the ranks of approximately [...]
Filing bankruptcy offers debtors the opportunity to have a fresh new start financially; however in order to avoid filing bankruptcy again, there are few habits debtors need to develop. One of the most common reasons that debtors fall behind on their bills and end up needing to file bankruptcy is the lack of an emergency [...]
Many analyst watching Texas unemployment had shown a glimmer of hope when job gains were posted in January. However, a loss of 13,000 jobs in February erased January's meager gains. Currently, many of Texas' employers are implementing job losses and Texas' unemployment rate remains stagnant at 8.2 percent as of February. "The Texas unemployment rate [...]
When a debtor faces a job loss, the first thing they should do is apply for unemployment insurance. Don't make the assumption that you don't qualify for unemployment insurance, apply and allow them to approve or not approve your benefits. One of the mistakes that many unemployed workers make is waiting too long to apply [...]
Foreclosures in the Dallas-Fort Worth area rose again by 18 percent compared to last month's foreclosure filings. But compared to last year's foreclosure filings in the same month, the foreclosures increased by a whopping 37 percent. Many analysts believe that many foreclosures that were on hold at the end of 2009 are now being released [...]
While the U.S. lost 106,000 jobs since January, employers have added a net 52,000 temporary jobs since then. But many economists are saying that the increase in temporary jobs may not be a sign that there is a jobs recovery on the horizon. "I think temporary hiring is less useful a signal than it used [...]
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is implementing 11,200 job losses at its Sam's Club warehouses in an effort to stop financial losses being experienced by the discount grocery chain. Approximately 1,200 of those job losses will be in Texas. The cuts represent about 10 percent of the warehouse club operator's 110,000 staffers across its 600 stores. That [...]
The latest job loss report released by the Labor Department is not encouraging. There were 85,000 job losses in December and that's after employers added 4,000 jobs in November. It just seems that America's workers can't seem to get a break. Even those who have been looking for work for an extended period of time [...]