Hold your bank to account The big groups pay desultory rates of interest on credit balances. John Greenwood analyses what they offer and how to get more for your money
Competition for your custom among the banks has never been so fierce. Last week Halifax threw down the gauntlet by launching of a current account offering an interest rate of 5 per cent on credit balances - a rate 50 times higher than that offered by its big high street rivals. Barclays, Royal Bank

Publication: The Sunday Telegraph London

Area Group Making Video About Go-Go; Howard Graduates Focus On African-American Issues
While Hollywood and to a lesser extent New York are the capitals of the nation's film production industry, a group of native Washingtonians who graduated from Howard University has joined the growing number of filmmakers trying to add Washington to the list of important film production centers.

Publication: The Washington Post

IT'S EASY TO EARN A BIT ON THE SIDE
Ouch! We're all feeling the credit crunch. But why not boost your income with a second job? Kate Whiting has rounded up 15 brilliant ways to get your hands on some dosh BUSTING THE CREDIT CRUNCH Many householders are struggling with inflated food prices and larger mortgage repayments. And no matter

Publication: Belfast Telegraph

LSU students earn quick cash from experiments
Emerson Darbonne University Wire 03-10-2004 (The Reveille) (U-WIRE) BATON ROUGE, La. -- Louisiana State University students searching for a temporary way to earn extra money might qualify to serve as research patients at Pennington Biomedical Research Center. According to Pennington clinic

Publication: University Wire

Earning power: 10 ways to make money without doing a hard day's work.(Features)
Nine-to-five slog getting you down? Here's how to stop being a slave to your payslip and earn a few extra pounds with the minimum of effort 1 Get paid to parade Here's your chance to join the usual suspects - and get paid for it. The police are always on the lookout for (innocent) members of the

Publication: The Mirror (London, England)

Teenage Girls Earn Less than Boys, Junior Achievement Poll Says.
By Kelly Pate, The Denver Post Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 22--Girls make less than boys at work. That's what teens said in an October poll released Tuesday by Junior Achievement, in which half the girls with jobs said they make under $6 an hour, compared to 34.1 percent of the boys.

Publication: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News