Raising children is substantial and demanding enough for many women all by itself. Even still, many mothers harbor the urge to start a business and nurture it right along with their children.

The credit card industry made a villain of itself this year by benefiting from billions in taxpayer bailout dollars and then thanking taxpayers by raising interest rates and minimum monthly payments, even on their good customers. It's time to fight back!

Current analysis is providing a list of the 400 U.S. banks that are moving into 'deep water', and are further being weighed down by the Housing Market's contractions due to bad loans. Is your bank on this list?

Huge Florida farm called East Coast Growers and Packers--one of the state's four largest tomato tomato growers--has agreed to deliver a penny-per-pound raise to farm workers, representing a pay boost of about 64 percent. With East Coast committed to making

Forced arbitration is everywhere, unfair and inescapable. The use of arbitration is more predatory and secretive in some industries than in others, but it is nearly impossible for consumers navigate the minefield of forced arbitration in many everyday pr

Bank closings continue, but perhaps not at the rate that some analysts supposed. Some experts think the the financial crisis will claim 300 to 400 firms in 2009 and 2010. If that is going to happen, the

The media tells me that health reform is a very complicated issue, that it is hard to understand and even harder to explain to simple-minded and politically unsophisticated people like me. It is about money and costs and free-market and big government so

President Obama wants to create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency when Congress returns from its recess. The American Bankers Association wants bank CEOs to ask their employees to send letters to members of Congress opposing the new legislation.

After being asked by French authorities to react, US giant Apple explained on Friday that recent cases of iPhones exploding in France were caused by "external force" from the user and denied that there was a problem with overheating batteries.

Manufacturers and sellers of natural dog and cat food are reaping the benefits of the natural pet food trend: