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Westport High School’s junior class is scheduled to take part in the Credit for Life Fair on April 11, supported by BayCoast Bank, Mechanics Cooperative Bank, Sovereign Bank and Westport Federal Credit Union.
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By PBN Staff
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The advance that pushed the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to a record left companies trading closer to analyst price estimates than any time in at least seven years.
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By Whitney Kisling |
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American Express Co., the biggest U.S. credit-card issuer by purchases, is adding deposit insurance and check-writing capabilities for accounts tied to its Bluebird prepaid cards sold by Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
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By Patrick Anderson |
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To register a car in Rhode Island, proof of an automobile-liability-insurance policy is mandatory, but the R.I. Division of Motor Vehicles admits it doesn’t regularly check to see if the policy you say you have actually exists.
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By Patrick Anderson |
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Brown University has expanded its student health insurance to include coverage for sex-change surgery, one of 37 colleges and universities in the U.S. to cover hormone and gender reassignment/confirmation surgeries, according to the Transgender Law and Policy Institute.
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By Rhonda Miller |
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Don’t you just hate money?
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Guest Column:
E. Larson Gunness | 4/1/13 |
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BOSTON – Attorney General Martha Coakley and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman have called for a new permanent leader to replace Edward DeMarco as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
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4/1/13
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After nine years of organizing, advocating for and expanding financial-literacy initiatives in Rhode Island, Jim Hedemark will soon be leaving his post as the executive director of the Rhode Island Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy.
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By Lindsay Lorenz |
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Lindalee Jordan has diabetes. She has no health insurance. Still, she considers herself pretty lucky.
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By Rhonda Miller |
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Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc was sued by a group of 21 pension funds and investment firms claiming the lender misled them about its finances when selling new shares in 2008, months before a government bailout.
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By Kit Chellel and Jeremy Hodges |