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The financial plight of the nation's 34 million renters has deteriorated rapidly since the beginning of the decade, yet they are rarely included in conversations about housing affordability.Half of all renters now spend at least 30 percent of their before-tax income on ...
Tim Holt was among the men and women who wove fabric and prosperity here for generations, until the textile factories left town in a global manufacturing shift that the rest of the country hardly seemed to notice.Fifty-one years old and pushing through ...
Business News at 1:30 p.m.The supervisor is Dan Scheraga (800-845-8450, ext. By Business Writer Bruce Schreiner.AP Photos.BOX OFFICELOS ANGELES (AP) Hollywood is nursing another big hangover. MELTDOWN OVERHAULWASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama is ready to roll out an overhaul of the intricate ...
AP map shows government jobs shield some towns from recession's worstIn North Carolina, where one in nine workers can't find a job, there's a county where the tough times haven't been all that bad. In March, as the rest of the country ...
Stress map outlines the patchwork stories of the American recession _ and beyondThrough the voices of its people, the map shouts.From Atlanta, Ga., listen to Marian Chamberlain 65, jobless, and no longer eligible for unemployment: What's that?'"From Broomfield, Colo., listen to U.S. ...
AP maps show anatomy of an economic meltdownHow did it get this bad?For two years, economic turmoil in the United States throbbed from a few areas of isolated distress dark bruises on a national map that was otherwise unscarred.Even the deflating housing ...
AP Executive Morning BriefingThe top business news from The Associated Press for the morning of Friday, May 8, 2009: ___RBS posts first quarter loss of $1.29 billionLONDON (AP) Royal Bank of Scotland on Friday reported a first-quarter loss of 857 million pounds ...
Bankruptcies are surging despite law that made them tougher and more expensiveThe number of U.S. businesses and individuals declaring bankruptcy is rising with a vengeance amid the recession, despite a three-year-old federal law that made it much tougher for Americans to escape ...
AP answers your questions on the news, from recessions and depressions to Mexico travelWhere do economists draw the line between a recession and a depression?Curiosity about how these terms are defined inspired one of the questions in this edition of " Ask ...
NY Gov. Paterson orders 8,900 layoffs after unions refuse to dealGov. David Paterson on Tuesday ordered layoffs that could total about 4 percent of state workers after unions refused concessions amid a staggering economic downturn that was projected to push the state's ...
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