Occupy Wall Street and other housing activists are heading to neighborhoods hit hard by foreclosure Tuesday to protest the mistreatment of homeowners by mortgage lenders.
A national credit union group significantly lowered its estimate for the number of new members credit unions signed on in the weeks leading up to November's Bank Transfer Day protests against big financial institutions.
It's an all too familiar litany of hassles: You need to see a physician to take care of your aching hip -- and the next appointment is weeks away. Or you skip out to the doctor during a workday lunch -- and though you see the actual doctor for all of 10 minutes after the inevitable long wait, a third of your day is gone.