Friday, January 13, 2012

Obama to launch summer-jobs initiative

President Obama on Thursday will unveil a summer-jobs initiative that the White House says is already on track to create 180,000 “work opportunities” in the private sector in 2012.

That is the number of opportunities, which includes mentoring and unpaid internships, that companies have told the administration they are willing to create. Some 70,000 jobs are paid, the White House says.


The initiative was hatched after Congress failed to approve a $1.5 billion summer-jobs fund that President Obama had been seeking as part of the American Jobs Act.
“Today’s announcement is the latest in a series of executive actions the Obama administration is taking to strengthen the economy and move the country forward because we can’t wait for Congress to act,” a White House statement reads.

Director of Consumer Agency Wants to hear from you



2011 saw some good news for consumers

As 2011 wraps up, let’s look back and reflect on the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to personal finance. One of the good things was the opening of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which will promote financial education and write federal rules to combat unfair, deceptive, and abusive financial practices and products.

The bureau, despite not having a director, has been busy. I’m a huge fan of its “Know Before You Owe’’ initiative aimed at helping people understand the consequences of the debt they take on. The agency began collecting public comment on a simplified credit-card agreement. It is testing two prototypes of mortgage disclosure forms to simplify the paperwork.
 

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