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Unemployment Rate Surges to 6.1 Percent in August

As expected, the unemployment rate moved higher in August. But the size of the jump surprised most. In 2008, 605,000 jobs have been lost in the U.S.

• Collection News

  • Collector Recovers Nearly $80,000 for Client, Gets Thank You from Debtor
  • Executive Changes: IDT Carmel Holdings Appoints Collections Industry Veterans
  • Arkansas AG Issues Warning on Debt Collection Scam
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• Debt Purchasing

  • View Debt Portfolios
  • Submit Debt Portfolios
  • Executive Changes: IDT Carmel Holdings Appoints Collections Industry Veterans
  • Debt Connection Symposium: Medical Debt Sales on the Rise
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• Bank News

  • Consumer Groups Get an 'F' for Phony Scorecard
  • Executive Change: Barclaycard U.S. Names Barney Briggs CFO
  • NACM Credit Manager's Index Slips Toward Contraction Territory
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• Healthcare

  • Grassley Questions Chicago Hospital with Ties to Obamas
  • Debt Connection Symposium: Medical Debt Sales on the Rise
  • Not-for-profit Hospitals Enter Period of Greater Uncertainty
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• Consumer/Retail

  • Consumer Groups Get an 'F' for Phony Scorecard
  • National Foundation for Credit Counseling to Hold Annual Conference in Baltimore
  • New Jobless Numbers Push Misery Index Up to 11.7 Percent
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• Technology

  • Bank Data Breach Could Impact 12.5 million Customers
  • Debt Resolve Shifts Business Strategy, Closes Collection Agency
  • Feds Charge 11 in Theft of 40 Million Credit Card Accounts
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• Government

  • Collector Gila Corp Announces New President and Other Appointments
  • Twenty-One Percent of Marines Contacted by Collectors in Past Year: Survey
  • Pioneer and Premiere Credit Top ED Contract Performance Race in July
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• People

  • Executive Changes: IDT Carmel Holdings Appoints Collections Industry Veterans
  • Collector Gila Corp Announces New President and Other Appointments
  • Executive Change: Barclaycard U.S. Names Barney Briggs CFO
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• Companies

  • SoundBite Communications Inc.
  • IDT Carmel
  • XIFIN
  • DebtX
  • Municipal Services Bureau
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