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U.S. seeking $6 billion from JPMorgan to settle mortgage claims: source
By David Henry, Margaret Chadbourn, Gary Hill, & Matthew Lewis U.S. government housing finance authorities are pressing JPMorgan Chase & Co for at least $6 billion to settle lawsuits over bonds backed by subprime mortgages, according to a person familiar … Continue reading
Elite Native American Firefighters Join Crews At Yosemite
By Kirk Siegler One of the firefighting teams trying to contain the Rim Fire in and around Yosemite National Park is the Geronimo Hotshots team from San Carlos, Ariz., one of seven elite Native American firefighting crews in the U.S. On … Continue reading
Child Hunger So Common That Three-Quarters Of Teachers Have Hungry Students
By Alan Pyke Three-quarters of America’s teachers have students who routinely show up to school hungry and half say hunger is a serious problem in their classrooms, according to No Kid Hungry’s annual educator survey. The numbers represent a significant … Continue reading
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Tagged education, hunger, Reduced price meal, School meal, Teacher, United States
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A College Kid, A Single Mom, And The Problem With The Poverty Line : Planet Money : NPR
By Pam Fessler The College Kid Rico Saccoccio is a junior at Fordham University in the Bronx. He’s from a middle-class family in Connecticut and he spent the summer living at home with his parents, who cover about $15,000 a … Continue reading
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Tagged Living wage, NPR, poverty, Poverty threshold, United States, United States Census Bureau, wages
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Our Giant Banks Own Airports, Control Power Plants, Hoard Vast Amounts of Commodities and Much More — How Can We Stop Them from Controlling the Lifelines of the Economy?
By Ellen Brown Giant bank holding companies now own airports, toll roads, and ports; control power plants; and store and hoard vast quantities of commodities of all sorts. They are systematically buying up or gaining control of the essential lifelines … Continue reading
50 Years Later: Whither the Moral Arc of the Universe?
By Paul Brandeis Raushenbush In 1853, the controversial abolitionist Theodore Parker preached these words: “I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve … Continue reading
50 Years Later, Our March Goes On
By Eric H. Holder, Jr. It was an honor to speak at the National Action to Realize the Dream March this morning to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. Fifty years ago, Dr. King shared his dream … Continue reading
Five myths about the March on Washington
By William P. Jones On Aug. 28, 1963, the March on Washington, featuring Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, became the touchstone of the American civil rights movement. But our focus on one man and one speech … Continue reading
Where Do We Go From Here?
By Marian Wright Edelman In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory … Continue reading
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