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Cheryl Boone Isaacs Elected President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
By Gregg Kilday Cheryl Boone Isaacs has been elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by the organization’s board of governors. The Academy announced her election Tuesday night via Twitter. Boone Isaacs, a marketing executive who … Continue reading
Will.i.am in Talks to Join ‘American Idol’ as Jennifer Lopez Nears Deal
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8 Cities Where 911 Systems Recently Failed
By Dana Liebelson New Yorkers are living with the fear that their city’s breakdown-prone emergency dispatch system could fail them when they need it most. It’s a fear that other major American cities have lived with for years. New York … Continue reading
The Truth About Income Mobility in Atlanta: Why the American Dream Is Alive in Our City
By Kasim Reed A recent Harvard/Berkeley study on the effectiveness of tax policy includes an impressive amount of detail on income mobility in the United States and provides valuable information that can be used by state and local leaders to support … Continue reading
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Tagged American dream, Atlanta, Kasim Reed, poverty, Social mobility, Southeast, United States
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The housing “recovery” is a total sham
By David Dayen Out on the alphabet streets in this once-thriving Florida community, the houses are dotted with black mold. Some have buckled roofs. Others are hollowed out by fire, or the wiring has been stripped. Pests and critters have moved in … Continue reading
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Tagged Ameriquest Mortgage, economy, Florida, foreclosure, Lake Worth, New Century, Real estate
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The Racist Mind
By Rinku Sen The verdict in George Zimmerman’s trial caused in me the kind of existential crisis that my optimistic nature is usually able to fend off. In these weeks I have come to understand just how much light exists … Continue reading
The Payday Playbook: How High Cost Lenders Fight to Stay Legal
By Paul Kiel As the Rev. Susan McCann stood outside a public library in Springfield, Mo., last year, she did her best to persuade passers-by to sign an initiative to ban high-cost payday loans. But it was difficult to keep … Continue reading
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Tagged bad loans, economy, loan, middle class, Missouri, money, Paul Kiel, Payday loan
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Analysis: Pope Francis’ New Direction For The Church
By Philip Pullella Some say his trip last week to Brazil, capped by a Mass for 3 million on Copacabana Beach, and the 80-minute, unfiltered news conference on the plane back to Rome, were the real start of Pope Francis’s … Continue reading
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