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401(k) trends: Target funds, auto enroll and fewer loans 05/13/2019 09:07am • Baltimore-based T. Rowe Price's mutual funds are tucked inside many company 401(k) plans, and it notes some encouraging trends: People are tapping their retirement accounts less often and they're putting more money in them. T. Rowe Price said the use of 401(k) loans reached a nine-year low of 22 Debt-burdened millennials prefer sign-up bonuses, travel credits when credit card shopping 05/13/2019 08:18am • Millennials are more likely than older generations to be enticed by extravagant credit card sign-up bonuses — of either cash or travel credit — than other credit card perks, and it may not be the best route to tackle their "sorry state" of debt. According to a report from CreditCards.com, 3 Contractors call for guaranteed back pay after government shutdowns 05/06/2019 12:49pm • About three months after the longest government shutdown in history came to an end, leaders of companies and unions representing federal contract workers are speaking out, asking for legislative changes to ensure that their employees are guaranteed back pay if another shutdown occurs. "We should Court to hear tribe's appeal in predatory loan lawsuit 05/06/2019 12:29pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court is set to hear arguments in a lawsuit accusing a small Native American tribe in Michigan of running a predatory loan scheme. At least five people from Virginia say they borrowed from BigPictureLoans.com after receiving an enticing loan pitch. The Ric Arena Stage's 'Junk’ tackles greedy excess with witty repartee and snazzy suits 04/29/2019 04:42am • In 2016, Arena Stage presented Ayad Akhtar's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Disgraced," which to my eyes remains one of the most powerfully relevant productions that Arena has ever staged. This week is your last chance to see his latest work, "Junk," a 2018 Tony nominee for Best Play. "Com ‘Helltown’ all over again: Front Royal government entities, officials immersed in scandals 04/27/2019 01:51pm • This article was written by WTOP’s news partner, InsideNoVa.com, and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. Around the time it was incorporated in 1788, the well-known nickname for Front Royal was “Helltown.” Given all the scandals now s California's Kite Pharma will create more than 400 jobs in Md. 04/24/2019 11:10am • Los Angeles-based Kite Pharma, which develops personalized T-cell cancer therapies, will build a biologics manufacturing facility on a 20-acre site in Urbana, Maryland, and will create hundreds of jobs in exchange for state incentives. Kite Pharma was acquired by Foster City, California-based Gil My Take: Student load debt — take it or leave it? 04/22/2019 10:28pm • Student loan debt, I wonder if we should keep it around? Mortgage before marriage for many young buyers 04/22/2019 08:59am • Nearly 25% of millennial homebuyers want to buy a home before they get married. LendingTree, which conducted the survey, says times have changed. "Many people used to get married, and then buy a home or have a baby, and then buy a home. Often times buying a home was triggered by these life eve Though potentially vulnerable in 2020, Trone lags in fundraising 04/18/2019 08:52am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Seven of Maryland’s eight members of the House of Representatives had more than $600,000 in their campaign accounts as of March 31 � Black maternal health crisis prompts politicians, providers to act 04/18/2019 08:12am • WASHINGTON — One previous cesarean section, a five-page written plan outlining post-delivery care for her oldest child and around 12 weeks of natural childbirth classes still didn’t prove to be enough preparation for the arrival of Allyson Brown’s second child. Almost two months after turni Libor is going away. What does that mean for your mortgage? 04/08/2019 07:57am • Libor, the London Interbank Offered Rate, is being phased out by lenders — and that could mean a change in the interest rates paid by millions of existing home mortgage borrowers in the U.S., if the transition to another benchmark isn’t done equitably. Libor is a financial instrument used to Today in History: April 8 04/08/2019 12:20am • Today is Monday, April 8, the 98th day of 2019. There are 267 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 8, 1994, Kurt Cobain, singer and guitarist for the grunge band Nirvana, was found dead in Seattle from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound; he was 27. On this PHOTOS: Exuberant Met exhibit explores the art of rock 'n' roll 04/03/2019 12:17pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Museum exhibits tend to be quiet. Not this one. In "Play It Loud," an exuberant show that can be heard as well as seen, the Metropolitan Museum of Art takes on the history of rock 'n' roll through iconic instruments on loan from some of rock's biggest names. There are flamboyant DC AG: Foreign teacher exchange program threatened deportation 04/02/2019 03:50am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The attorney general of Washington, D.C., says a teacher exchange program in the district lied to foreign recruits and threatened them with deportation if they didn't sign annual contracts. The Washington Post reports D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine's office on Monday sue