A lawsuit that challenged the federal government’s approval of Mississippi’s plan to divert a half-billion dollars in Hurricane Katrina housing funds to a port project has led to an agreement that aims to help thousands of needy storm victims. View full post on All Stories
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Public housing plans delayed by rain
November 15th, 2010
admin The federal government’s plan to boost public housing in Australia is behind schedule but under budget. View full post on All Stories
High Unemployment Stalls Spanish Economic Recovery
November 14th, 2010
admin Linda Young – AHN News Writer Madrid, Spain (AHN) – Spain’s weak economic recovery stalled in the third quarter, according to data from Spain’s National Statistics Institute. Preliminary figures for the gross domestic product (GDP) from July to September shows it unchanged from Q2. In addition, GDP for the year was only up 0.2 percent [...]
Calif borrows $40M a day to pay unemployment
November 7th, 2010
admin With one in every eight workers unemployed and empty state coffers, California is borrowing billions of dollars from the federal government to pay unemployment insurance. Read comments View full post on All Stories
Proposed Federal Role in Catastrophe Insurance Would Increase Earthquake Coverage
November 5th, 2010
admin A proposal for the federal government to support state-run catastrophe-insurance programs would increase the number of people buying earthquake coverage in California and modestly lower both … View full post on All Stories
How the 2010 election results will affect health care and health freedom
November 2nd, 2010
admin (NaturalNews) In what appears to be a broad backlash against Obama-era policies, U.S. voters swept Republicans into office in record numbers in last night’s election. As of this writing, Republicans had clearly taken the House but failed to win a majority in the Senate. This effectively ends the Democratic super-majority alignment among the House, Senate [...]
Councils get housing benefit cash
October 27th, 2010
admin The government is to give £10m to local councils to soften the blow of changes to housing benefit but insists the controversial reforms will go ahead. View full post on All Stories
Fannie, Freddie bailout to cost taxpayers $154 billion
October 21st, 2010
admin The government bailout of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac likely will cost taxpayers $154 billion, less than worst-case projectio … View full post on All Stories
U.S. Tries to Ease Wider Worries Over Foreclosures
October 20th, 2010
admin The housing secretary said that the government had yet to find evidence of widespread problems in the foreclosure process, but that the investigations would continue. View full post on All Stories

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