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... Since AmeriCorps was created in 1993, 75,000 volunteers each year have pitched in to educate children and the disadvantaged, clean parks and streams, build affordable housing, and feed the hungry.The president spoke today at a Washington, D.C., boarding school that focuses on learning through service.BARACK OBAMA ...
... that's not the only area that's been hit. You also have the hit in health care and Medicaid recipients are going down. Even affordable housing money that was being allocated has also been cut.So you really see a dire need for a stimulus package coming from Washington ...
... when the bank collapsed last month, it concerned more than just depositors and stockholders. Washington Mutual had donated $50 million annually to organizations involved with affordable housing, community building, and education, including cash grants to schools in 15 states; $8 million a year has gone to 250 nonprofit and civic ...
... 000 homeowners. Federal dollars are increasing affordable housing throughout New Orleans. As we rebuild, we are moving away from a failed system of low-income housing projects, and moving toward vibrant mixed-income communities. And each week, hundreds of families are moving out of temporary housing and into long-term ...
... people lived in New Orleans before the storm hit. City officials estimate about 300,000 live there now. GEORGE W. BUSH: Federal dollars are increasing affordable housing throughout New Orleans. And as we rebuild, the strategy is not to repeat the mistakes of the past, but to move toward a ...
Question/Comment: Paul, If I hear one more presidential (or candidate) speech about the imperative to rescue those poor subprime home owners, I will scream. Not one economist, not one candidate, no one ever addresses the painfully unregulated and rogue rental landlords that comprise most cities. “Affordable housing” provided by ...
... homebuyers have relied on riskier mortgages, not a big problem as long as the economy stays strong. STEVE HORSFORD: We have growing issues related to housing, affordability of housing. You know, people aren't moving here the way they were because they can't find affordable housing. Those who are ...
... nearly 40 years ago.The former North Carolina senator has made poverty his signature issue, focusing on the expansion of health care coverage, educational opportunity, affordable housing, and the minimum wage.JOHN EDWARDS: It will be a $7.25-an-hour, based on what Congress has done, but it ought ...
... seen a surge of new residents, mostly Latino, many undocumented.The new residents were attracted by jobs in the town's expanding industrial park and affordable housing. Hazleton's Hispanic population exploded and today comprises almost a third of its 30,000 residents.But in recent weeks, many have begun ...
RALLY LEADER: What do we want? GROUP OF PROTESTORS: Affordable housing! RALLY LEADER: What do we want? GROUP OF PROTESTORS: Affordable housing! BETTY ANN BOWSER, NewsHour Correspondent: For weeks now, public housing supporters have been marching through the streets of New Orleans demanding that poor people be allowed to go ...
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