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    Winners and Losers in Home Mortgage Modification

    Nov 25, 2010 11:17 PM EST

    ... 50-state initiative. TOM MILLER, attorney general, Iowa: A lot more modifications should be made that aren't being made. PAUL SOLMAN: Modifications; reducing interest rates, even principal, to reflect lower home values that could give millions of distressed homeowners more affordable monthly payments. That's what Antoinette Coffi-Ahibo ...

  • This is what Jeff Sessions just said about free speech

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    Sep 26, 2017 04:40 PM EST

    ... their opinions, to protest, to criticize in any number of ways. I guess it’s up to the owners and the people who create these games and pay for the ball fields to decide what you can do on a ball field. But the freedom of every individual player is ...

  • Examining Biden's 5-part plan to tackle rising violent crime rates

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    Jun 23, 2021 10:55 PM EST

    Some of the initiatives in the plan include giving money to cities to hire more law enforcement officials including past pre-pandemic levels, buy new equipment and technology for police departments, help formerly incarcerated individuals reenter society, use resources to hold gun dealers accountable, and invest in community violence intervention ...

  • Senate health bill puts many moms and babies at risk, says March of Dimes president

    Senate health bill puts many moms and babies at risk, says March of Dimes president

    Jul 03, 2017 11:16 PM EST

    ... of Dimes, as you mentioned, what we care about is the health of pregnant women and their babies. And our main concern with the Senate bill, as it's proposed, is that it would put at risk the health of many of those women and their babies. Medicaid today covers ...

  • How the big biomedical bill advances U.S. mental health care

    How the big biomedical bill advances U.S. mental health care

    Dec 14, 2016 12:40 AM EST

    ... HARI SREENIVASAN: Most of the attention around the big biomedical bill signed by President Obama today has focused on faster drug approval and new money for research, but it's a huge piece of legislation. And one key part that's received less attention is the attempt to improve ...

  • How long will the Fed have to 'fiddle' with interest rates?

    How long will the Fed have to 'fiddle' with interest rates?

    Mar 11, 2016 12:47 AM EST

    ... Fed, America's Central Bank, has kept interest rates rock-bottom low, by buying up Treasury bonds, mortgage bonds, all sorts of IOUs. The low rates were meant to induce spending and investment. MAN: Mortgage rates are among the lowest they have been in generations. PAUL SOLMAN: And, yes, economic ...

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    Keynes' Economic Theories Re-emerge in Government Intervention Policies

    Feb 23, 2009 10:20 PM EST

    Amid a flurry of activity by the Obama administration to help lift the economy out of recession, the ideas of the late renowned British economist John Maynard Keynes on the government's role in helping ease an economic crisis are in the spotlight.

  • More federal agents will join fight against crime in Memphis next week, Tennessee governor says

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    Sep 26, 2025 06:43 PM EST

    Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said Friday that the troops will be part of a surge of resources to fight crime in the city that includes 13 federal agencies and state troopers. The National Guard troops will be from Tennessee, and they will be deputized by the U.S. Marshals Service to support local law enforcement.

  • Amid measles outbreak, Texas lawmakers vote to make school vaccine exemptions easier

    Amid measles outbreak, Texas lawmakers vote to make school vaccine exemptions easier

    May 27, 2025 06:24 PM EST

    Texas has been the center of the nation's largest measles outbreak in decades.

  • Jobs report exceeds expectations but unemployment rise signals cooling labor market

    Jobs report exceeds expectations but unemployment rise signals cooling labor market

    Jul 05, 2024 10:55 PM EST

    The U.S. Economy added more jobs than expected last month, the 42nd consecutive month of job growth. But unemployment inched up to 4.1 percent and there were other signs of a cooling labor market. For a deeper look at what this means for the economy, Amna Nawaz spoke with Roben Farzad of Full Disclosure.