Tag: Spare Change
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State Senate passes bill combating predatory debt collection
In the years since the Great Recession, the Attorney General’s office has received approximately 1,300 complaints a year about the growing debt collecting industry, according to a press release by State Senator James’ Eldridge’s office. Debt collectors often seek to collect money consumers do not owe, or make errors about the actual amount of money…
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Time to make a difference
How did I get involved with Spare Change News? It came to me in a dream. After spending the summer doing research for my fourth book, Haunted Boston Harbor, I became obsessed with the historical back story involving the rusty, old bridge connecting Quincy’s Moon Island and Boston Harbor’s Long Island. “Mayor, tear down that…
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Making Change With Real Change, Not Spare Change
Steve Smith Spare Change News Rather than tossing loose change into a panhandler’s empty cup, Boston’s mayor and City Council may want you instead to slide your spare quarters and nickels into a homeless meter. At a recent City Council meeting, City Councilor Ayanna Pressley presented a proposal to have these meters installed here in…