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  • Domestic violence issues often stem from financial disputes. A program in New York is helping abused women regain control by teaching them financial literacy.

  • Tess Vigeland and personal finance columnist Liz Weston answer listeners' personal finance questions.

  • A broken piggy bank.
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    Many people are gearing up to switch banks — to ones with little or no fees. We learn some tips on how to make that transition as smoothly as possible.

  • A seminar at the First Annual Financial Blogger Conference in Schaumberg, Ill.
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    There are hundreds of financial blogs — people tackling mountains of debt, explaining financial concepts. Tess Vigeland went to a financial blogger conference to learn why readers find these blogs so appealing.

  • Shelby Burford's napkin resume
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    This week's winner is a college grad who chose a unique way to put himself in front of employers in a big way.

  • Americans have a lot to fume about — still-high unemployment, disappearing retirement accounts, the increasing rich-poor gap. Humorist Kristina Wong wonders why more Americans aren't expressing that anger.

  • We take a peek into the wallet of personal finance columnist Liz Weston, whose job is to teach others how to keep more cash in their wallets.

  • Letters: Credit scores, the Fed’s Operation Twist

    We dig into the Marketplace Money mailbag to see what you think of our stories.

  • There's a huge uproar over the fees many banks are proposing, but those checking accounts may never have been free to begin with.

  • German Chancellor Angela Merkel smiles after the Lower House of German parliament Bundestag in Berlin passed the Euro fund bill.
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    This week's piggy will be going overseas to someone who may have saved a continent from (further) financial disaster.