With the uncertainty that many people are facing in the current economy, many able and willing workers in New Jersey are struggling to find full-time employment. Even when a worker is laid off and left unemployed, the worker still has to continue paying for expenses...
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Month: April 2014
Increased ‘zombie foreclosures’ heavy burden on New Jersey
The beginning of 2014 saw a rise in a specific type of foreclosure, according to housing data website RealtyTrac. Distressed homeowners in the process of foreclosure have decided to simply abandon their homes avoiding the traditional foreclosure process...
Income gap linked to disproportionate student loan debt
So what’s a young person to do? Go to college, get a degree, get a better job, but be forever saddled by student loan debt? Or enter the working world without a degree but without student loan debt? Seems like a catch-22. But the decision is actually even...
Supreme Court to decide treatment of inherited IRA in bankruptcy
A case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court recently could drastically change the way retirement funds are handled in bankruptcy court. Currently, certain retirement funds such as IRAs are protected under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and that same protection is extended...
