With holiday shopping season around the corner, experts recommend caution when your favorite store offers you a credit card.
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National group seeks to ban credit history from affecting auto insurance premiums
You’re ready to buy a car. You sit down with your car dealer’s financing guy and you’re told the interest rate of your auto loan is affected by your credit score. You’re not surprised. But when you go to insure that car, you are surprised to find that your credit history can also influence the […]
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Maine AARP decries LePage veto of consumer protection bill
AUGUSTA — A group that represents one of Maine’s largest voting blocs is decrying Gov. Paul LePage’s veto of a bill that was meant to provide no-cost protection against identity theft. AARP Maine and the Maine Council on Aging, along with a group of financial advocates, said Monday that LePage’s veto of LD 382 “baffled” them. […]
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Lewiston to receive funds for CA$H Coalition
LEWISTON — The John T. Gorman Foundation has awarded $750,000 over three years to the Maine Centers for Women, Work and Community to help more than 1,000 low-income residents and families across Maine build savings, develop assets and attain financial stability. The award was announced Wednesday morning at a news conference at the University of […]
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SMCC, UNE form partnership to aid transfer of credits
SOUTH PORTLAND (AP) — Southern Maine Community College and the University of New England are forming a partnership to allow students to transfer their credits. Leaders from both institutions are gathering Monday to sign 16 transfer agreements ensuring students can transfer seamlessly from Southern Maine Community College programs to programs at the University of New […]
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And the survey says …
Mainers are more likely to open a bank account than just about anyone else in the country. There are more doctors here per capita than elsewhere. We have the best hospitals and the best schools. We say we’re healthier eaters than other Americans. We live in the safest state in the country and we have […]
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Maine college grads missing out on overlooked student loan tax credit program
AUGUSTA — It’s been more than five years since Maine created tax credits for college graduates who remain in the state to work, but only a fraction of graduates take advantage of the program because of the state’s failure to effectively market it, lawmakers and advocates say. Lawmakers heralded the Educational Opportunity Tax Credit as […]
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Maine college grads missing out on overlooked student loan tax credit program
AUGUSTA — It’s been more than five years since Maine created tax credits for college graduates who remain in the state to work, but only a fraction of graduates take advantage of the program because of the state’s failure to effectively market it, lawmakers and advocates say. Lawmakers heralded the Educational Opportunity Tax Credit as […]