THURSDAY | FEBRUARY 23, 2012
Mich., Pa. Put Limits on Families Seeking Food Aid
Kathy Barks Hoffman | Associated Press
HOWELL, Mich. (AP) — The 2010 Buick Enclave parked in her garage kept Michigan resident Renee Moore from getting food stamps for two months last year, even though her family’s income had dropped to below the poverty level, her husband’s Ford Explorer had 300,000 miles on it and her [...]
States, Banks Reach Foreclosure-Abuse Settlement
Derek Kravitz | AP Real Estate Writer
February 9, 2012
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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. states have reached a $25 billion deal with the nation’s biggest mortgage lenders over foreclosure abuses that occurred after the housing bubble burst. Federal and state officials announced the deal Thursday. It is the biggest settlement involving a single industry since a 1998 multistate [...]
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From Relief to Despair: Varying Views of Jobs Data
Paul Wiseman | AP Economics Writer
February 8, 2012
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Month by month, the U.S. job market is regaining its health. So many jobs are being added that the unemployment rate has dropped for five straight months. At 8.3 percent, it’s at a three-year low. Whether the job market actually feels stronger, though, depends on your [...]
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Millions of Families Three Months Away from Poverty
Susannah Nesmith | Special to Equal Voice News
February 1, 2012
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MIAMI ‒ When it’s time for bed, 10-year-old Miguel Abreu retrieves a deflated air mattress wedged between a bookcase and the wall in his aunt’s tiny apartment in Florida City, south of Miami. He quietly unfolds it in the middle of the dining/living room and hooks up [...]
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Emboldened GOP Wants to Abolish State Income Taxes
Sean Murphy | Associated Press
January 31, 2012
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A year after Republicans swept into office across the country, many have trained their sights on what has long been a fiscal conservative’s dream: the steep reduction or even outright elimination of state income taxes. The idea has circulated among academics and think-tank researchers for years. [...]
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Food stamp families to critics: Walk in our shoes
Jesse Washington | AP National Writer
January 26, 2012
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Some have advanced degrees and remember middle-class lives. Some work selling lingerie or building websites. They are white, black and Hispanic, young and old, homeowners and homeless. What they have in common: They’re all on food stamps. As the food stamp program has become an issue in the Republican [...]
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Ala. Family Lives Amid Rubble From April Tornado
Jay Reese | Associated Press
January 10, 2012
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Geraldine Horton steps out of her apartment into a broken world that looks much as it did the day after a killer tornado plowed through town last spring. Buildings are sliced in two across the street from her home and next door; broken bricks litter her [...]
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Education Law’s Promise Falls Short After 10 Years
Kimberly Hefling | AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP)
January 9, 2012
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TON (AP) — The No Child Left Behind education law was cast as a symbol of possibility, offering the promise of improved schools for the nation’s poor and minority children and better prepared students in a competitive world. Yet after a decade on the books, President George W. Bush’s [...]
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2011 Job Hopes Improved Most for Worst-Hit Groups
Derek Kravitz | Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP)
January 6, 2012
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NGTON (AP) — For many people whose job prospects faded most during the recession, 2011 brought a small dose of relief. When unemployment was surging, the youngest U.S. workers, the oldest, those without college degrees and men as a whole all suffered disproportionately. Last year, those groups — whose unemployment [...]
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State Child Care Cuts Force Hard Choice on Parents
Amy Taxin | Associated Press
December 30, 2011
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OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — Sarah Comito rolls out of bed before dawn most days and slips quietly out of her house. Before her rambunctious toddler wakes up, she heads off to work as a waitress in an upscale weight-loss resort in Malibu. The hour-long commute is exhausting, but the 33-year-old [...]
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