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Banks offer special accounts for specific populations. Consumers should evaluate their options carefully before choosing their account type. As Americans open checking accounts across the country, many are often offered special products that banks market exclusively to students.

Hospitals that serve the poor thought they would be helped by the Affordable Care Act. Now it looks as if they will be hurt by it. more

Payday loans are meant as a stopgap for the fiscally pinched. But in many cases, these short term loans create a costly cycle of escalating debt. A payday loan is like a cash advance on your paycheck. Marketed as a

By making the federal health law’s Medicaid expansion optional for states, the U.S. Supreme Court has cast doubt on decades of established state-federal programs and billions of dollars in funding tied to them. more

This week’s extraordinary journalism about state government, tagged to #StateReads on Twitter. more