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Facing foreclosure? Here's what you can do
For most of the growing legion of financially stretched families in danger of losing their homes, there is help available -- as long as they don't bury their heads in the sand. According to industry estimates, half of all owners who lose their homes to...Tags: Unemployment Benefits, Financial and Business Services, Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance, U.S. Department of the Treasury
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Obama administration adopts get-tough stance on mortgage bias
A new Obama administration get-tough policy on home mortgage discrimination is drawing kudos from consumer advocates, along with expressions of serious concern from lawyers who represent lenders and brokers.
In a settlement last month with two...Tags: American International Group, Florida, Prices, Minority Groups, Social Issues
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U.S. offers special homeowner benefits to military personnel
The United States tries to take care of its warriors, a tradition that Congress has continued in little-known sections of the latest home buyer tax credit legislation and one of the government's main programs to help military owners who must sell their...Tags: Homes, Marketing, Career and Workplace, U.S. Department of Defense, State Budgets
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Proposed guidelines for reverse mortgages spell out potential pitfalls for homeowners
If you, your relatives or friends are contemplating applying for a reverse mortgage in 2010, check out the new guidelines proposed this month by the federal regulatory agencies for financial institutions.
Though aimed at banks and credit unions, the...Tags: Wage Contract Issues, Corporate Crime, Collective Contract, Career and Workplace, Washington (U.S. state)
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Repeat-buyer tax credit may be failing to stimulate sales
Could Congress' ambitious second round of home purchase tax credits -- especially the $6,500 repeat-buyer credit -- turn out to be lacking in terms of economic stimulus clout? With the April 30 deadline to sign home purchase contracts for both the $8,000...Tags: Credit and Debt, Homes, Real Estate Buyers, Corporate Crime, Politics
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Grieving Kettleman City mothers tackle a toxic waste dump
On a rainy afternoon in a cramped trailer, the five homemakers listened as state officials with clipboards asked personal questions: Did they or their husbands smoke, drink or take illicit drugs? Had they been exposed to pesticides or other toxic...Tags: Kings County (California), Drugs and Medicines, Photography, University of California, Irvine, Health and Safety at Work
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Broward School Board member fails to disclose husband's role in $500,000 fee break
South Florida Sun SentinelA Tamarac developer won a $500,000 break in fees to the Broward School District after hiring School Board member Stephanie Kraft's husband, internal district records show. Although Kraft skipped the School Board's vote on Prestige Homes' request, records...Tags: Employers, Broward County, Government, Corporate Crime, Lawyers
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Grand Junction healthcare is a model of low cost and high quality
GRAND JUNCTION - This Western Colorado city of just over 53,000 delivers some of the best healthcare in the nation, at the lowest cost. And nearly everyone has health coverage.
Getting results like this across the nation could solve much of the nation'...Tags: Business, Medical Services, Drugs and Medicines, Entertainment, Budgets and Budgeting
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Broward, Palm Beach county prosecutors want new anti-corruption law
Amid a series of public corruption scandals that have so far hauled up eight Broward and Palm Beach county officials on charges, the top prosecutors in the two counties are joining forces to seek passage of a new law tightening the screws on dishonest...Tags: Coral Springs, Broward Health Medical Center, Broward County, Government, Corporate Crime
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Harris agrees – again – to testify against former boss
In the fall of 2008, John Harris was chief of staff to the governor of Illinois, a lawyer at the peak of his career offering advice to the state's top executive.
But that governor was Rod Blagojevich, and Harris on Friday admitted that some of that...Tags: Executive Branch, Barack Obama, Rod Blagojevich, Trials, Government
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Be wary of products touting FDA certification
![If you're shopping for a pill or gadget to trim your waistline, grow your hair or generally make you feel better, you probably take comfort in the words "FDA approved" or "FDA registered."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-02/52465739-27095412.jpg "If you're shopping for a pill or gadget to trim your waistline, grow your hair or generally make you feel better, you probably take comfort in the words "FDA approved\" or \"FDA registered.\"")
If you're shopping for a pill or gadget to trim your waistline, grow your hair or generally make you feel better, you probably take comfort in the words "FDA approved" or "FDA registered."
Even in a time of widespread distrust of government, most...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Companies and Corporations, Harvard University, Sexual Dysfunction, Medical Research
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