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News Articles: Your Money

New research tackles the central question about "buy now, pay later": Does it encourage people to overspend?

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  • Business

In a year marked by inflation, 'buy now, pay later' is the hottest holiday trend

People are paying for blenders, shirts and even groceries in installments. New research suggests this encourages people to overspend.

December 15, 2022
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh

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  • Health

How Medicare Advantage plans dodged auditors and overcharged taxpayers by millions

A KHN investigation found when some Medicare Advantage plans got a rare federal audit, they couldn't produce billing records for care they said they'd provided. Some blamed fire, flood — or doctors.

December 12, 2022
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By:
  • Fred Schulte and
  • Holly K. Hacker
A congressional report found financial technology companies, or fintechs, largely fueled PPP loan fraud. Bluevine, a fintech noted in the report, told NPR it adapted to threats of fraud better than other companies mentioned.

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  • Investigations

A congressional report says financial technology companies fueled rampant PPP fraud

Fraud in the Paycheck Protection Program, which gave potentially forgivable loans to small businesses during the pandemic, was largely due to financial technology companies, according to a new report.

December 08, 2022
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By:
  • Austin Fast and
  • Sacha Pfeiffer
Jamie Feldman, 33, found herself drowning in credit card debt and decided to try a radical idea: only spending cash.

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  • Your Money

The cutting edge solution to rising debt? Paying in cash

2022 has been a rough year for America's personal finances. That's sparked a throwback movement among some young debtors: all cash, all the time.

December 07, 2022
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By:
  • Stacey Vanek Smith
GPB News NPR

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  • Your Money

TikTokers are paying with cash to deal with debt

With credit card balances rising across the country, an age-old approach is gaining traction on TikTok: tackling debt by paying with cash.

December 05, 2022
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By:
  • Stacey Vanek Smith
Lucy Greco (left), a web-accessibility specialist at the University of California, Berkeley, is blind. She reads most of her documents online, but employs Liza Schlosser-Olroyd as an aide to sort through her paper mail every other month, to make sure Greco hasn't missed a bill or other important correspondence.

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  • Health

Medical bills remain inaccessible for many visually impaired Americans

When health bills aren't legible — via large-print, Braille or other adaptive technology — blind patients can't know what they owe, and are too often sent to debt collections, an investigation finds.

December 02, 2022
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By:
  • Lauren Weber and
  • Hannah Recht
President Joe Biden answers questions with Education Secretary Miguel Cardona in October as they leave an event about the student debt relief portal.

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  • Education

Legal losses keep coming for Biden's student loan relief plan

The 5th Circuit Court rejected a Education Department appeal on Wednesday, the latest setback in several parallel lawsuits. The administration is expected to ask the Supreme Court to weigh in.

December 01, 2022
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By:
  • Elissa Nadworny
Who is to blame for inflation? Some say greedy corporations are the culprits.

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  • Business

The mystery of rising prices. Are greedy corporations to blame for inflation?

Inflation has been pushing prices up all year, but economists and politicians don't agree on where it's coming from.

November 29, 2022
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By:
  • Stacey Vanek Smith
Tenant activists from around the country rally outside the White House on Nov. 16 in Washington, D.C. They want the Biden administration to regulate rent increases on federally backed housing.

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  • National

Rent control expands as tenants struggle with the record-high cost of housing

Voters in several cities approved ballot measures to cap rents, part of a larger resurgence of rent control. Economists warn that such caps can actually reduce affordable housing overall.

November 28, 2022
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By:
  • Jennifer Ludden
Jerry Bilinski, a retired social worker who lives in Fayetteville, N.C., says he deserves a full explanation from his medical team of what led to a small gash on his forehead during his surgery for a cataract.

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  • Health

He woke up from eye surgery with a gash on his forehead. What happened?

Some doctors and medical practices voluntarily give rebates on a bill if an injury occurs during a procedure, while others will not, a medical ethicist says. Here's how patients can respond.

November 28, 2022
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By:
  • Fred Clasen-Kelly and
  • Stephanie O'Neill
A picture taken in Liverpool, north west England on November 22, 2018 shows Black Friday sales branding on shopping websites displayed on smartphone and laptop screens.

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  • Business

Black Friday sales rake in a record $9.12 billion from online shoppers

More than 166 million Americans are expected to shop over the five days from Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday.

November 26, 2022
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By:
  • Ashley Ahn
Due to high inflation this year, NPR's Business desk shares cheaper dishes to substitute for Thanksgiving stables.

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  • Food

Inflation won't win Thanksgiving: Here's NPR's plan to help you save on a meal

Turkey, stuffing, pie — it's all way more expensive this year. But you don't have to let inflation spoil your meal, if you're willing to get creative.

November 22, 2022
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By:
  • Stacey Vanek Smith,
  • Mary Yang,
  • and 4 more

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  • Health

Hidden audits reveal millions in overcharges by Medicare Advantage plans

Taxpayers footed the bill for care that should have cost far less, according to records released under the Freedom of Information Act. The U.S. government may charge insurers $650 million as a result.

November 21, 2022
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By:
  • Fred Schulte and
  • Holly K. Hacker
Jake Thacker in Portland Ore. had about $70,000 worth of investments in his account on FTX. He may have lost it all.

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  • Your Money

FTX investors fear they lost everything, and wonder if there's anything they can do

More than one million people may have lost their money in the spectacular collapse of the cryptocurrency trading firm. Some had big chunks of their life savings disappear into a black hole.

November 18, 2022
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By:
  • Chris Arnold
Iceland is like Mars — "if Mars had hot tubs," according to a new ad campaign from Visit Iceland.

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  • World

Iceland tells tourists it's like an alien planet. A NASA scientist agrees

"Iceland. Better than space." That's the new tagline from Iceland's tourism board. We asked the head of Visit Iceland why her country might have an edge over space — and consulted NASA as well.

November 18, 2022
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
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