A federal judge has temporarily blocked a part of Alabama‘s tough new immigration law that requires residents to show proof of citizenship when registering mobile homes with the state. US district judge Myron Thompson of the Middle District of Alabama wrote in a 108-page opinion that the law leaves illegal immigrants “between a rock and [...]
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December 14, 2011
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November 11, 2011
Israeli Settlement Expansion Raises West Bank Tensions
After the United Nations’ cultural organization UNESCO voted to grant membership to the Palestinians, Israel announced it would accelerate construction of Jewish settlements on the outskirts of Jerusalem. The move drew international outrage. One of them is Givat Hamatos, a settlement that was already in the scheduling phase. It lies on a hill between Jerusalem [...]
November 10, 2011
GOP debate in Michigan – as it happened
11.18pm ET: In summary: this was a cosmically awful debate. To talk about winners and losers here makes no sense. Like the Battle of the Somme, any gains were measured in inches. Except that there was a clear loser: Rick Perry, who botched an answer so badly, when he failed to remember a list of [...]
November 2, 2011
Israel to speed up settlement construction in Jerusalem, West Bank
November 1, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Israel to speed up settlement construction in Jerusalem, West Bank –Official: Construction will take place in areas that are expected to be part of Israeli territory 01 Nov 2011 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday called for speeding up the construction of 2,000 housing units in East Jerusalem [...]
November 1, 2011
After serving her country, female veteran struggles to find a job
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Kenya Smith only has good things to say about the U.S. Navy, where she served a total of 14 years before leaving in 2009. It’s the only profession she’s ever known. “I love the Navy,” she said during a recent interview in suburban Maryland. “If you split me open, I’m blue and [...]
October 25, 2011
Refinancing plan for US mortgages
24 October 2011 Last updated at 20:55 GMT The US housing market is at the heart of the US economy The US housing market regulator has agreed to extend a refinancing scheme for borrowers whose loans are worth more than their homes. The move by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) could help up to [...]
October 24, 2011
October 24, 2011
US politics live blog: Obama’s new housing plan, Republican presidential candidates in a tangle
3.08pm: Oh dear – it seems cruel cyber-squatters have been buying and abusing slight variations on the spelling of Michele Bachmann’s name. Shame on the webmasters of bachman2012.com and michelebachman.com. 2.47pm: The latest staff reshuffle is taking place on the Rick Perry team, with some interesting news: Joe Allbaugh, George Bush’s campaign manager in 2000, [...]
October 22, 2011
Foreign home-buyers sought by US
21 October 2011 Last updated at 15:43 GMT Most foreign homebuyers choose Florida and California for their purchases Two US senators have proposed a plan to offer visas for foreigners buying homes worth $500,000 (£314,000) or more. Democrat Chuck Schumer and Republican Mike Lee, sponsoring a bill, say it is a move to increase housing [...]
October 12, 2011
The GOP debate: economists’ verdict | The panel
Dean Baker: ‘The “regulation impedes job growth” story has no evidence’ Suppose the Republican presidential candidates blamed an invasion by space aliens for the failure of the economy to generate jobs. Would the media dutifully repeat it without comment? Given the media’s response to Republican complaints about regulation preventing job growth, we should assume that [...]
September 27, 2011
4 Ways to Trim Your Housing Costs Now
When prospects for rising household incomes are dim, as they are today, it’s time to redouble your efforts to cut expenses wherever possible. That’s especially true of housing, which remains the biggest expense for many retirees. Weak housing values and economic uncertainties have put a big damper on housing activity. But with interest rates at [...]
September 17, 2011
Three Years Later, GOP Keeps Fighting Financial Reform
Pat Garofalo is economic policy editor for ThinkProgress.org at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. The financial crisis that nearly torpedoed the global economy began in earnest three years ago this week with the September 15 bankruptcy of the investment house Lehman Brothers. One day later, mega-insurer American International Group Inc. was bailed out [...]
September 17, 2011
Little ‘viva’ in Las Vegas real estate
Las Vegas (CNN) — In the brutal heat, Mike Forizs ventures out of his North Las Vegas home to take out the trash. “If I go over and look at the house on the corner, there are broken windows,” he says. It appears to be a party hangout, with empty booze and soda bottles that [...]