Archive for October, 2020
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Job trainings, burial scams proliferate during the pandemic
Consumer fraud is a shape-shifting demon that follows the headlines to target its prey, whether affluent or newly impoverished, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That was the key message from experts and consumer advocates speaking at a recent Federal Trade Commission Zoom conference for media and community stakeholders. The number of scams hasn’t increased because […]
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Family politics and the Abasolos of New Jersey
Alice Abasolo, a resident of Woodbridge, New Jersey, is the portrait of a fervent supporter of Donald Trump. A conservative Catholic and pro-Life advocate, she is the third child among four siblings, all of them born in Ozamiz City, the hometown of their father. Their mother hails from Loay, Bohol. They came to America when […]
