--- title: 'More Money Friday Roundup: L.A. vs. The Banks & a la Carte Cable' description: 'Personal finance from around the Web: Banks in Los Angeles now have a new incentive to make loan modifications, open branches in poorer neighborhoods and…' authors: - name: timestaff url: https://money.com/author/timestaff/ articles: 459 covers: - Banking - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes former_staff: true published: '2010-03-13T01:03:27.000Z' modified: '2020-07-07T10:20:55.000Z' section: Banking tags: - Banks - Cable TV - healthcare costs - homebuyer tax credit - loan modifications - Personal Finance - Retirement - retirement savings word_count: 185 canonical: https://money.com/more-money-friday-roundup-l-a-vs-the-banks-a-la-carte-cable/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![More Money Friday Roundup: L.A. vs. The Banks & a la Carte Cable](https://money.com/content.money.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/140601_money_gen_13.jpg?crop=0px%2C733px%2C4780px%2C2689px&resize=1012%2C569&quality=85&strip&ssl=1) Personal finance from around the Web: - Banks in Los Angeles now have a new incentive to make loan modifications, open branches in poorer neighborhoods and invest in the city. Those [banks that rank lowest in community investment will lose access to nearly $30 billion](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/12/los-angeles-gets-tough-on_n_496677.html) in city savings and pension funds. \[The Huffington Post\] - Think you might be eligible for a [2010 homebuyer tax credit](http://consumerist.com/2010/03/are-you-eligible-for-home-purchase-or-renovation-tax-credits-follow-this-flowchart.html)? Follow this chart to find out. \[The Consumerist\] - As Congress still battles it out over health care, costs continue to rise for consumers. A new study finds that most [big companies plan to shift a larger share of healthcare costs](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/11/AR2010031100740.html) to their workers next year. \[The Washington Post\] - If you're among the two-thirds of retirees with less than $50,000 saved for your retirement, don't despair. There are still [steps you can take now to salvage your retirement](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704349304575115780466873958.html?mod=WSJ_PersonalFinance_PF2). \[The Wall Street Journal\] - The average U.S. cable subscriber gets 118 channels but watches only about 17 of them. One columnist argues that [subscribers should be able to pay for only the channels they want](http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus12-2010mar12,0,946179.column). \[Los Angeles Times\] *Follow Money on Twitter at* [*http://twitter.com/money*](https://twitter.com/money). ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/more-money-friday-roundup-l-a-vs-the-banks-a-la-carte-cable/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Banking", "item": "https://money.com/banking/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Banks", "item": "https://money.com/banks/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "More Money Friday Roundup: L.A. vs. The Banks & a la Carte Cable" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/more-money-friday-roundup-l-a-vs-the-banks-a-la-carte-cable/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/more-money-friday-roundup-l-a-vs-the-banks-a-la-carte-cable/", "name": "More Money Friday Roundup: L.A. vs. The Banks & a la Carte Cable", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2010-03-13T01:03:27.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/more-money-friday-roundup-l-a-vs-the-banks-a-la-carte-cable/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/more-money-friday-roundup-l-a-vs-the-banks-a-la-carte-cable/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2020-07-07T10:20:55.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "More Money Friday Roundup: L.A. vs. The Banks & a la Carte Cable", "articleSection": "Banking", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2014/06/140601_money_gen_13.jpg?quality=85", "width": 4780, "height": 3540 } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "timestaff", "url": "https://money.com/author/timestaff/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/timestaff/#author" } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2010-03-13T01:03:27.000Z", "description": "Personal finance from around the Web: Banks in Los Angeles now have a new incentive to make loan modifications, open branches in poorer neighborhoods and…", "abstract": "Personal finance from around the Web: Banks in Los Angeles now have a new incentive to make loan modifications, open branches in poorer neighborhoods and…", "@id": "https://money.com/more-money-friday-roundup-l-a-vs-the-banks-a-la-carte-cable/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2020-07-07T10:20:55.000Z", "wordCount": 185, "keywords": [ "Banks", "Cable TV", "healthcare costs", "homebuyer tax credit", "loan modifications", "Personal Finance", "Retirement", "retirement savings" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Bank", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank" ] } ] } ] } ```