fall 2008

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• For Elderly in Rural Areas, Times Are Distinctly Harder

  
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  Growing old has never been easy. But in isolated, rural spots like this, it is harder still, especially as the battering ram of recession and budget cuts to programs for the elderly sweep through many local and state governments. Ms. [Norma] Clark has been able to get help since her fall two winters ago because ...
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• WSJ Front Page—American Dream 2: Quit paying your mortgage and become a renter

  
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  Others on Ms. [Shana] Richeys block have made similar moves [to default, and then to rent]. Mr. [Jay] Fernandez, the firefighter, moved into 3139 in July, after stopping the $4,800 monthly payments on the home he owned around the corner on Champion Way.... With an income of about $8,300 a month and a rent of $2,200, ...
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• U.S. already $292 bln in the red this year - CBO

  
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  The U.S. government racked up a gaping shortfall in the first two months of this fiscal year after posting a record budget deficit last year, congressional analysts said on Friday. In October and November, the government spent $292 billion more than it took in, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said. That ...
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• Moody’s downgrades Illinois debt ratings

  
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  Moodys Investors Service on Tuesday downgraded Illinois general obligation bond rating to A2 from A1, citing the states financial woes stemming from the U.S. recession. Moodys cut other Illinois ratings, affecting about $24 billion of outstanding debt, including the states Build Illinois sales tax revenue bonds, also ...
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• Timothy Geithner Says Transaction Tax Would Hurt Retail Investors

  
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  Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said any tax on financial transactions would have to be designed to ensure taxpayers don’t ultimately bear the burden, criteria he said no current plan meets. “I have not seen the version of that that I think works,” Geithner said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s ...
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• EU official says “Tobin Tax” not right way to go

  
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  A "Tobin" style tax on financial transactions is not the best way to raise cash for bank bailouts, a senior official from the European Unions executive body said on Wednesday. The G20 group of leading countries asked the International Monetary Fund at a meeting in Scotland last month to come up with options by April ...
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• A graphic display of county by county employment changes since 2007

  
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  Push play--powerful and painful .
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• Politico: Some Democrats sour on stock transaction tax

  
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  Three House Democrats are ripping a proposed tax on stock transactions, even as the idea gains traction among Democrats desperate to fund jobs creation.... “Proponents of a transaction tax argue that a small 0.25 percent tax on stocks would be paid for by the highly paid financial traders and would not affect most ...
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• Robert Samuelson: Fed ‘reform’ we don’t want

  
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  Congress has so far sensibly put this off limits. "Audit" has a different meaning in the context of the GAO than in everyday usage. It means examine, investigate, evaluate and, often, criticize. Its not just crunching numbers. The GAO usually undertakes studies at the request of someone in Congress. This suggests that ...
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• Forecast for South Carolina Economy remains gloomy

  
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  Roughly half a million adults in South Carolina are unemployed, underemployed or have given up looking. That is nearly 1 in 4 eligible workers in the state. And the months ahead look grim to John Rainey, South Carolinas chief economic forecaster. "I dont feel hopeless, but its hard to feel hopeful," Rainey said. He ...
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• Religion and Ethics Newsweekly: U.S. Hunger on the Rise

  
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  KIM LAWTON, anchor: Joining me with more on all of this is Candy Hill, a senior vice president at Catholic Charities USA. Candy, it seems like this time of year, every year, we hear appeals from groups saying “Oh people are hungry, you need to give.” What makes this year different? CANDY HILL, Catholic Charities: ...
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• Sarel Oberholster: The Cruelest Tax of All

  
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  The zero-interest-rate policy of the Fed is sold to the public as a benign economic rescue in the public interest. The stark reality is that this policy is a disguised tax implemented by the Fed. It takes income from savers and hands it as a subsidy to borrowers. It also facilitates and funds the fiscal deficit ...
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• This year’s New Jersey Budget gap grows fivefold

  
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  The state on Wednesday told bond investors it is facing a $1 billion hole in this year’s budget — a shortfall five times bigger than previously disclosed — and will cut funding for schools, municipalities, higher education, hospitals and pension plans to close the gap. For months, Governor Corzine has been ...
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• Scott Jagow of NPR on the Tobin Tax: Taxing the Street

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 580
  Perhaps you heard on the Marketplace Morning report this proposal to tax Wall Street transactions. The revenues would go toward deficit reduction and job creation on Main Street. I understand the motivation behind this, but there’s a pretty good case against it. Read it all and the comments are interesting as well ...
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• Bank of England Reveals Secret £62bn mission to save banking sector within hours of collapse

  
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  Royal Bank of Scotland and HBOS were given a secret £61.6 billion in bridging loans last year on top of the £500 billion of support that the banking sector received from the taxpayer, the Governor of the Bank of England disclosed yesterday. MPs expressed astonishment when Mervyn King told them about the emergency ...
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• Front Page of Friday’s NY Times: With F.H.A. Help, Easy Loans in Expensive Areas

  
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  While the F.H.A. is certainly strengthening the high-end market in the Bay Area by prompting more sales, there are growing concerns that it might become a destabilizing force. Kenneth Donohue, inspector general for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the parent agency of the F.H.A., said the higher loan ...
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• Wave of Debt Payments Facing U.S. Government

  
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  The United States government is financing its more than trillion-dollar-a-year borrowing with i.o.u.’s on terms that seem too good to be true. But that happy situation, aided by ultralow interest rates, may not last much longer. Treasury officials now face a trifecta of headaches: a mountain of new debt, a balloon ...
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• WSJ: Weighing Jobs and Deficit

  
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  The White House is lukewarm about proposals by congressional Democrats to introduce broad legislation to create jobs, instead favoring targeted measures that would be less likely to inflate the deficit, administration officials said. There is as yet no agreement within the White House or in Congress on how to try to ...
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• Regents Raise College Tuition in California by 32 Percent

  
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  As the University of California’s Board of Regents met Thursday at U.C.L.A. and approved a plan to raise undergraduate fees — the equivalent of tuition — 32 percent next fall, hundreds of students from campuses across the state demonstrated outside, beating drums and chanting slogans against the increase.... ...
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• More members of middle class file for bankruptcy

  
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  A new study by Elizabeth Warren, Harvard Law School Leo Gottlieb professor of law, and Deborah Thorne, Ohio University associate professor of sociology, finds that personal bankruptcy has become a largely middle-class phenomenon led by filers who are college-educated and owners of homes. According to the study, "The ...
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