Payday

The era of receiving a paper paycheck is rapidly becoming as distant as the days when we relied on landlines for all our communication needs. To make things easier on workers -- and save a bundle on administrative costs in the process -- companies increasingly have been relying on electronic...

Sensitive and personal information of Payday Loan Store's customers ended up in the trash despite a company policy that promises to protect such data, according to a lawsuit filed by Illinois' attorney general. The company, which sells high-interest, short-term loans, allegedly dumped the...

In California and Michigan, welfare recipients use their Electronic Benefit Transfer cards to withdraw the funds from ATM machines in casinos. If they proceed to roll the dice with the money, wouldn't this be state-backed gambling?

It's obvious that you like people to know about your day. You post status updates every five minutes to Twitter, upload pictures to Facebook like it's going out of style and are video-blogging your every move on YouTube. So why not turn that compulsion for sharing into a payday by entering the...

With a consensus building that we've now seen the worst of this recession, economists worry that the recovery won't happen unless consumer spending bounces up. And that's going to take a while. A disturbing poll hints at why: 61 percent of workers live paycheck to paycheck. The number of people...