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Whether it s Hurricane Ian, Fiona or other weather disasters, people are being warned about donating to fraudulent charities. Scams have become common during disaster relief efforts, according to national and state watchdog agencies. Kristen Johnson, director of communications at the Better Business Bureau of Connecticut, shared some red flags: Be wary of any unsolicited text messages, and check what percentage of your donation goes to the cause. .
Evidentiary hearings are underway in a Washington, D.C., courtroom this week, to decide if a massive lawsuit against the cellphone industry will be allowed to go to trial. Multiple families are suing most of the major wireless companies and their trade association, asking for hundreds of millions in damages, claiming cellphone use causes brain tumors. Monique Solomon Martinazzi, a plaintiff whose husband Andy passed away at age 43, said he had a brain tumor which developed right where he used to hold his cellphone. .
Consumer groups are pressing for legislation to reform the way credit agencies handle errors on credit reports. The calls to amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act come in the wake of an admission by Equifax last month that a coding problem caused sizable shifts in the credit scores of about 300,000 people. U.S. .
The work of some nonprofit organizations has only increased with the pandemic and the needs that have come from it. An author and expert in the field of trauma speaks at a Montana conference today about many workers feelings of being overwhelmed. Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, founder and director of the Trauma Stewardship Institute and author of "The Age of Overwhelm", said there s a cycle for nonprofits in which they become overextended because of structural issues within society, which in turn affects their workers. .