USA Today: Campaign advisers tied to lending crisis

USA Today, Updated:   4/3/2008 12:20 AM

WASHINGTON — On the campaign trail, Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama have proposed cracking down on the predatory lending that they say helped fuel the foreclosure…

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BlackBlueDog.com: Dr. Wilmer Leon: Poverty, Priorities and the Presidential Budget

President Obama’s 2014 proposed budget is mix of spending cuts and tax increases.  His stated goal is the creation of a “…rising, thriving…

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NY Times: State-Wrecked: The Corruption of Capitalism in America

The Dow Jones and Standard & Poor’s 500 indexes reached record highs on Thursday, having completely erased the losses since the stock market’s last peak, in 2007. But instead of cheering…

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HuffPost: Obamacare Faces Near-Solid Block In The South

ATLANTA — As more Republicans give in to President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul, an opposition bloc remains across the South, including from governors who lead some of the nation’s poorest and unhealthiest…

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The State: Jim DeMint: Medicaid expansion wrong for SC

‘For every problem,” H.L. Mencken wrote, “there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong.” Enter Obamacare and one of the main ways that it purports to reduce the number of…

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Post & Courier: Haley: Lifting up rural S.C. hospitals a priority

COLUMBIA — Two days after being accused by Democrats of “declaring war” on rural South Carolina, Gov. Nikki Haley rolled out more details on an initiative to provide additional…

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The Nation: The Scandal of Michigan’s Emergency Managers

On January 20 the progressive think tank Michigan Forward and the Detroit branch of the NAACP sent a joint letter to Michigan Governor Rick Snyder expressing concern over Public Act 4, the Local Government and School District Fiscal Accountability Act. Signed into law in…

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AnnArbor.com: Nathan Bomey: Why bankruptcy is worse for Michigan cities than emergency managers

Bankruptcy judges make emergency managers look downright palatable — yet we continue to pretend that our cities aren’t headed toward financial calamity.   Missing from the fierce debate over the increased power of…

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RT.com: Chavez’s pal or US-backed rich kid: Who will inherit Venezuela?

An election to be held in Venezuela in 30 days will likely see a tough stand-off between “the Chavez man” Nicolas Maduro and the late president’s main opponent, US-supported…

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