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Center for Consumer Law
  Volume 1 Number 3

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The People’s Lawyer’s Tip of the Day

Take advantage of the new law and get a free copy of your credit report. There are three credit bureaus. Get a free report from one of them every four months. This way you can keep current.  Click here for more.


You Can Get Out of Debt

If you're like most Americans, you have debt. If you're like many Americans, you try not to think about just how much debt you have and what it's really costing you. If you do think about it, you might not sleep well. But ignorance never is bliss, and in order to get out from under the burden of debt, you need to face the uncomfortable (and perhaps downright ugly) truth: it may take you 30 years to pay off that credit card balance. How can this be, you ask?  Click here for more.


7 Ways to Control Your Emotional Spending

Some people shop because they're unhappy or giddy or anywhere in between. But retail therapy can leave your budget in sad shape.  Click here for more.


What's Wrong with the Economy?

Inflation-adjusted hourly and weekly wages are still below where they were at the start of the recovery in November 2001. Yet, productivity,the growth of the economic pie,is up by 13.5%. Click here for more.


Your Money

Should I lease or purchase a vehicle? Click here for more.


For the Lawyers

New York judge rules that woman can seek punitive damages for attack by Oreo the cockapoo. Knowingly harboring a dangerous dog, even a cockapoo can be costly. Click here for more.

 

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