by Beth Lawrence & Ramsen Shamon | May 18, 2010 | Business & Tech
ARLINGTON, Va. — A man walks into a bank with the intention to rob it. He slips the teller a note who then turns to him and says “You know you can do this online now.” That punch line is how John Walp describes the cyber threat epidemic....
by Beth Lawrence & Ramsen Shamon | May 13, 2010 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — Having a college savings account can drastically improve the odds of a child going to college. When comparing two kids from identical family backgrounds, Jacqueline T. Williams, director of the college savings initiative at the New America...
by Beth Lawrence & Ramsen Shamon | Apr 28, 2010 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — April is an exhausting month. On top of pulling practical jokes (April Fool’s), honoring Gaia (Earth Day), settling debts with Uncle Sam (Tax Day) and dragging your kids to the cubicle (Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day), April is also a...
by Beth Lawrence & Ramsen Shamon | Apr 27, 2010 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — There’s a school of thought, made popular by Whitney Houston, that children are our future, that if you teach them well they’ll lead the way — fiscally that is. So with 16 percent of workers confident about having enough stashed...
by Beth Lawrence & Ramsen Shamon | Apr 22, 2010 | Business & Tech, Topics
WASHINGTON — Valisha Cooks, 28, graduated from the University of Phoenix in 2007 with almost $90,000 in debt, a sum so large she ended up filing for bankruptcy. “I didn’t go to college to borrow a bunch of money and then shirk my...
