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Help from friends boosts loan-challenged (Denver Post)
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Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:54:25 GMT
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Good credit and a stable job should have been enough for Matt Schilling to get a low interest rate on a bank loan to fix his Jeep. Despite the tough economy, the 27-year-old figured he would find an affordable note with ease. Schilling wanted to replace a blown engine.
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Religion Notes: Nov. 21 (The Fayetteville Observer)
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Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:28:21 GMT
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Anderson Creek Christian Center, 8227 Elliott Bridge Road, Spring Lake, will hold the Thanksgiving Feed the Community Day on Saturday, Nov. 22, from noon to 3 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. 497-4350.
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Winter homeless shelter set to open at Cal Expo (The Sacramento Bee)
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Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:06:59 GMT
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Area homeless people can find shelter from the cold and rain this winter at Cal Expo. The winter shelter, operated by Volunteers of America and funded by the county Department of Human Assistance, opens Monday and will remain open through late March. The shelter can house as many as 154 men, women and children nightly in dormitory-like rooms. Residents may stay at the shelter for 14 ...
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Sour economy puts college on hold for more South Florida students (Sun-Sentinel)
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Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:40:19 GMT
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Joe Perri had big college dreams.
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Lawmakers press treasury secretary on changes to bailout plan (The Times and Democrat)
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Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:46:29 GMT
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Faced with exasperated lawmakers upset by shifts in bailout strategy, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson launched a spirited defense Tuesday of his handling of the $700 billion program and expressed fresh reservations about tapping the pool for mortgage guarantees to relieve skyrocketing home foreclosures.
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Recent college graduates fight load of debt (Blairsville Dispatch)
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Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:29:23 GMT
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Loan consolidation options are more limited now than they were for students who graduated college a few years ago. The U.S. Department of Education is nearly the only loan consolidator in the nation as many lenders have suspended consolidations because of the credit crunch.
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Ex-students troubled by debt urged to work with lenders (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
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Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:12:21 GMT
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Some former students struggling in the tough job market are having trouble dealing with debt.
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Bankers' greed and supervisors' folly (Asia Times)
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Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:00:05 GMT
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We are smack in the middle of a crisis that will only get much worse before getting better, a crisis that could entail the worst recession since the Great Depression and one that could reverse much of the gains from globalization.
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Worse Than the Great Depression? (Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel)
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Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:22:46 GMT
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It's a minority but growing view, including from 86-year old former Goldman Sachs chairman, John Whitehead, at the November 12 Reuters Global Finance Summit in New York. As disturbing evidence mounts, he said: "I think it would be worse than the depression.
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Plan Could Help 1.5M Keep Homes, FDIC Says (The Memphis Daily News)
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Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:07:39 GMT
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Publicly breaking with the Bush administration’s official stance, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. proposed Friday to use $24 billion in government....
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