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... difficult to know, that the people who choose not to tell you — those might be the most vulnerable people.” Still, it’s clear that poverty rates for queer people are higher than the general population, a result of discrimination, underpay, and other practices that have made it more difficult for ...
... you file for Social Security I am now a widow and am dealing with the costs of his final month-long hospital stay, our regular bills and his burial. Facing all these expenses, I then find that they have taken money, and they say there is nothing I can do ...
... to customers posted online Dec. 4. “We experienced significant financial losses … if we continued to offer the individual PPO, we’d have to raise those rates as well as the rates for all of our individual plans. Our competitors are facing the same dilemma … in fact, no one is offering ...
Editor's Note: The Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee convenes in Washington, DC, Tuesday to deliberate its next step on interest rates. If the FOMC agrees that the labor market is strong enough and inflation expectations are moving back towards its 2 percent target, it may remove language about ...
... especially after this month's midterm elections. But some are trying to change that. A bipartisan group of authors has written a new book, "Money ball for Government," a data-driven approach to policy-making endorsed by key players on both sides of the aisle, including two current U.S ...
... interest to lend us any more money. We would become like Greece, Lehman or AIG. But if we're on the road to ruinous interest rates on our bonds, how is it that the rate has dropped substantially in the past month, and hasn't even risen in the past ...
President Barack Obama held a town hall meeting in Costa Mesa, Calif., Wednesday, where he spoke about the AIG controversy, his plan for the budget and economic recovery plans.
After a background report, Curt Hebert, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, discusses the commission's vote on wholesale electricity price limits.
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