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Need financial advice? Feds have 50 different financial literacy programs

By Laurel Adams

GAO counts more than 50 financial literacy programs across 20 agency, creating confusion and duplication

A script for when creditors call

By Shirley Gao

Some debt settlement companies give consumers a script to follow when creditors call

HUD cuts to devastate mortgage counseling agencies across nation

HUD mortgage counseling program loses funds, hundreds of housing counseling agencies hammered
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Detroit faces ‘emergency’ takeover despite voter disapproval

By Paul Abowd

Despite voter disapproval, governor uses special powers in bid to resolve Motor City's fiscal woes.

Excerpts from this story referencing "Detroit Public Schools":

"… aw and its effects on residents in Flint, Pontiac, Benton Harbor, the Detroit Public Schools and elsewhere. But Snyder’s Republican administration fought back …"