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

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Race car driver Scott Tucker drew an elaborate facade around his payday loan businesses

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Wells Fargo to pay $175M in lending settlement

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Payday lenders agree to stop 'deceptive and illegal' practices

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One year later: A meltdown retrospective

By Kat Aaron

A script for when creditors call

By Shirley Gao

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

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Debt settlement company fined, ordered to stop operating in Illinois

By Shirley Gao

Borrower Nightmares: Small town teacher seeks help for big debt, ends up in bankruptcy

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Lawsuit loans add new risk for the injured

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Judge orders Quicken Loans to pay $2.7 million award in West Virginia fraud case

By Michael Hudson

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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'Occupy Wall Street' aims ire at foreclosures

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Obama won't sign notary bill that might speed home foreclosures

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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.

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Michigan's budget crisis puts democracy on the chopping block

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State takeover of Michigan cities slowed by courts

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Michigan moving up?

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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 …"