Your work becomes a big part of your life, to say the least. But what happens when your life starts reflecting your work — and your work is on a reality show about people who have accumulated too much debt? Sean Cole goes behind the scenes.

Elizabeth Warren says she's more focused on protecting consumers than securing a permanent job in her role as interim head of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

This final note today: Some solace the next time you get stuck behind somebody paying by check in the grocery store. Yes, Mom, I'm talking to you….

And this final note. For all the pronouncements that we'd become better, smarter savers out of the financial crisis, looks like the wallets are out…

With plastic cards and e-banking, paper checks are going the way of the dinosaurs. Reporter Sally Herships takes a look at the rise and fall of checks.

And this final note: Connecticut's attorney general is the latest to add his voice to a growing chorus warning kids against using the Kardashian…

Question: So I received an unsolicited Achieve MasterCard in the mail. It's one of those deals where you load it, so sort of like a debit card with…

More and more, companies are using credit reports to check up on employees and job applicants. Should this become an accepted practice? John Dimsdale reports on what the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is planning to do about it.

You won't be seeing credit card companies tabling on college campuses this fall, because of the financial reform law. Reporter Curt Nickisch looks at how that change affects how college students learn about money.