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Teacher fighting her way to the top of a mountain of school chairs.

Teachers With Student Debt: These Are Their Stories

9:40am July 26, 2017

If you're a teacher, you have one of the lowest-paid professional jobs in the U.S. Most require a four-year degree, which can require tens of thousands of dollars in loans that some struggle to repay.

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Mueller plans to build his chicken barns in this cornfield just south of his home. His barns would house "breeders," the hens that lay the eggs that will hatch to be raised for meat.

National

Farmers Take Out Millions In Loans To Raise Chickens For Big-Box Retailers

4:08pm June 22, 2017

by Grant Gerlock

To slaughter 2 million birds per week, Costco is contracting poultry farmers. But this requires a major financial investment from small producers, and the payoff may not be guaranteed.

Back when commercial lenders were eager to do business with him, Donald Trump briefly operated an airline. In this 1989 picture, Trump attends a ribbon-cutting for the venture at Boston's Logan International Airport.

Trump May Have A Lot Of Money, But Documents Show He Owes A Lot, Too

10:47am June 20, 2017

by Jim Zarroli

Over the years, the president has had an up-and-down relationship with big commercial lenders. But while in the Oval Office, he could find himself in a conflict of interest with any amount of debt.

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Digital lenders are pulling in all kinds of data, like purchases, SAT scores and public records.

Economy

Will Using Artificial Intelligence To Make Loans Trade One Kind Of Bias For Another?

5:10am March 31, 2017

by Charles Lane

The next loan you get may depend less on your credit score and more on what a program thinks of your habits. Digital lenders say the process will be more fair, but others worry about unintended bias.

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Lending Club founder and then-CEO Renaud Laplanche is interviewed on TV after his company's initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange in December 2014 in New York. Laplanche resigned in May 2016.

With Lending Club Disgraced, An Industry Looks For Lessons

12:52pm June 10, 2016

by Aarti Shahani

Lending Club, a leader in the peer-to-peer marketplace, is mired in scandal. The finance technology industry, known as FinTech, is dissecting what it means for online lending.

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Goldman Sachs Will Pay $5 Billion For Misleading Investors On Mortgage Assets

3:39pm April 11, 2016

by Jim Zarroli

U.S. officials say the firm sold mortgage-backed securities based on loans that were a lot riskier than they were supposed to be.

Economy

USDA Loan Interruption Hits Local Housing Market

12:35pm October 15, 2013

The federal government shutdown is causing a slowdown in home sales in rural Triad communities. The U.S.