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TownHall : Erasing Medical Debt Won’t Fix the Problem — Competition Will

March 14, 2025 | By JOHN SWEENEY, JAIMIE CAVANAUGH

A new rule from the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), slated to take effect in March, will remove health care debts from credit reports and bar lenders from considering medical debts in loan decisions. Meanwhile, state and local policymakers nationwide are pushing plans to forgive consumer medical debt. Such measures are intende ...

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Discourse : The ideal housing is all housing

October 24, 2024 | By KILEEN LINDGREN, MARK MILLER

From "Full House" to "Little House on the Prairie," "I Love Lucy" to "The Brady Bunch" and "Friends" to "Frasier," the home has always been a central feature of American television. And the common denominator among these shows is that there is no common denominator in what makes a house a home. There is no ideal American home except one that meet ...

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The Morning Call : Our tree service company took on the FTC; here is why

October 03, 2024 | By DAVID SERVIN

Twelve years ago, my son Adam started a small tree care company in our hometown of Perkasie, Bucks County. What started as a side business alongside his full-time job as a mechanical technician grew into ATS Tree Services, a successful company with a dozen employees that provides a wide range of residential and commercial tree care services. The Fe ...