Stretching Your Dollar: Recognizing Financial Abuse
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and we want to show you a few warning signs that can include financial abuse. Beverly Harzog, consumer finance analyst at U.S. News & World Report, joined 'Stretching Your Dollar' to break down what financial abuse looks like and how to create a plan to become more independent when it comes to money.
They are playfully called the “forgotten five”: A handful of toys — the pogo stick, the Fisher-Price Corn Popper, My Little Pony, PEZ dispensers, and Transformers — that regularly approach toybox royalty as finalists for the National Toy Hall of Fame, only to be tossed back on the pile.
Rite Aid’s plan to close more stores as part of its bankruptcy process could hurt access to medicine and care, particularly in some majority Black and Hispanic neighborhoods and in rural areas, experts say.
