People have experienced many financial hardships linked to the current economic situation. Many lost jobs or endured deceased working hours. Many individuals exhausted unemployment and savings resources. The necessity to tighten budgets and reduce consumer spending leaves families without a means to replenish savings or retirement accounts, pay down debt or indulge in a simple night out. Financial experts encourage individuals toward generating some form of supplemental income to accelerate debt repayment and to replenish or resume savings accounts.
Consider temporary or seasonal jobs. Seasonal or temporary positions are currently the fastest growing sector of employment. There are countless, diverse seasonal jobs that can inject some life into your savings account. Many job opportunities increase during the holidays, as retailers require additional employees to accommodate the abundance of shoppers.
Avon
In addition to world famous beauty products, this global company offers a variety of items including clothing, jewelry, home decorating merchandise and seasonal gift items.
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Question: I have been divorced for 5 years now and my ex-husband declared bankruptcy in June. He has a business and let the credit line go to $30,000.00. Since he declared bankruptcy they are now coming after me since I had signed a personal guarantee, he also did. I was taken off the business and bank account but not the personal guarantee. Is there anything that I can do other than declare bankruptcy?
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Plant Performance Services. located at 1520 S. 129th West Ave. in Sand Springs will be shutting down its plant on December 23. As a result, 73 local workers will be losing their jobs at Christmas time.
The plant has been in business in Sand Springs for 50 years where it retrofitted and installed furnaces for oil and gas refineries.
The company may still employ a handful of workers at the site through January, but all production work at the plant will cease by the end of the year according to Keith Stevens, spokesman for Fluor Corp., the parent company of Plant Performance Services.
Stevens said the work will be moved to facilities near Houston to better serve energy industry customers on the Gulf Coast.
Some employees will be dismissed immediately but will receive pay and benefits for 60 days because of federal laws that require prior notification of mass layoffs.
Of the 73 workers that received layoff notices, 43 worked in production and 30 in administration and accounting.
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The average Joe and Jane with excellent credit has a sky-high Credit Karma credit score of 720 or higher. Lenders and issuers treat these consumers as the cream of the crop—premium rates, access to best financing options and offers, approval on almost all credit cards, and extra leverage when negotiating terms.
Joe and Jane are the best kind of customers, so lenders and issuers will go extra lengths to get and keep their business. An excellent credit score reflects a very healthy credit report, which may be checked by potential employers, landlords, utility providers, cell phone providers, and more.
32% of Credit Karma consumers fall in the excellent credit range of 720 and above, and less than one percent have a credit score above 800. If you fit this credit profile, congratulations! You’ve achieved elite credit-score status, so you must be credit-conscious, vigilant, and alert to keep it that way.
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Abdi Hajji Hussein – AHN News Correspondent
Mogadishu, Somalia (AHN) – Hizbul Islam, one of two insurgent groups in southern Somalia, will open negotiations with the transitional federal government of Somalia but with one condition, an official of the group said Saturday.
Sheikh Hassan Mahdi, a high-ranking official with Hizbul Islam, told a Mogadishu radio station the group is ready to talk with the Somali government only if African Union peacekeepers, known as AMISOM, leave the country.
“We need to go to the negotiations table, we need reconciliation,” Mahdi told Simba radio. He vowed Hizbul Islam would continue fighting until AMISOM leaves Somalia.
Hizbul Islam is the most powerful group in southern Somalia after the Al Qaeda-inspired group Al Shabaab.
Critics say this condition by Hizbul Islam appears impossible to happen as the existence of the Somali government depends on African Union peacekeepers.
Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys is the leader of Hizbul Islam. The United States has accused him of having links with Al Qaeda.
In April, the U.S. froze t
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**Welcome to Extra Fun Fridays here at Credit Karma Bootcamp: Your 31-Day Credit Health Plan.**
Credit Karma Bootcamp is finishing up next week, and we really hope its been a helpful last three weeks of advice on ALL THINGS CREDIT. In case you missed it, here’s a list of the top 15 helpful tips from CK Bootcamp so far.
Think of this as your cheat sheet or Cliffs Notes for better credit fitness. You can spare the next 6 minutes reading through and picking up what could possibly be a million dollars-worth (think of all the money you’ll save with better credit!) of our best of the best financial tips from CK Bootcamp.
5 Minute Mondays
- Simulate how certain financial actions can affect your credit score in Credit Karma’s totally free Credit Simulator. The Credit Simulator takes your actual credit score and predicts what your credit score could look like after certain financial moves. Takes only 5 minute to add points to your score! Score
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