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Challenging the debt buyers: A Virginian wins her case — without a lawyer
01 Mar 2024 12:07 GMT
When Mazie Green got the notice that a Norfolk-based firm that buys debt from lenders had filed a claim in Alleghany County General District Court that she owed it $8,914.31 she did what many a Virginia mountaineer would do.
In fact, she kept saying that, …
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CFPB Bites of the Month - 2023 Annual Review - Debt Collection
22 Feb 2024 18:39 GMT
In this article, we share a timeline of our monthly "bites" for 2023 applicable to debt collection. If debt collection in 2023 had a theme it would be medical debt. Medical debt woes transcend political parties and affect nearly all demographic …
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Credit Union receives nearly $1 million to help advance mission
05 Oct 2017 19:51 GMT
Appalachian Community Federal Credit Union will receive nearly $1 million from the U.S. Treasury’s “CDFI Fund” to help the credit union carry out its work with underserved consumers.
“This award signals that ACFCU has reached a new, national level of …
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searches for internet porn
01 Jun 2017 16:01 GMT
Photo: Frazer Harrison, Staff
Kit Harington had a man bun and a scowl worthy of Jon Snow.
Kit Harington had a man bun and a scowl worthy of Jon Snow.
Photo: Frazer Harrison, Staff
A former Google data scientist used an odd metric to predict the …
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A former Google data scientist used an odd metric to predict...
01 Jun 2017 15:51 GMT
Photo: Frazer Harrison, Staff
Kit Harington had a man bun and a scowl worthy of Jon Snow.
Kit Harington had a man bun and a scowl worthy of Jon Snow.
Photo: Frazer Harrison, Staff
A former Google data scientist used an odd metric to predict the …
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A former Google data scientist used an odd metric to predict the unemployment rate weeks before official stats: searches for internet porn
01 Jun 2017 14:27 GMT
It's
data reimagined.
Phil
and Pam Gradwell (to be)/Flickr
It takes the Bureau of Labor Statistics three weeks to collate
its survey data on unemployment and release that information
to the public.
Three weeks might seem like a long time — but hey, …