Black homeowners are roughly 50 percent less likely than whites to receive help under the largest of the administration’s anti-foreclosure programs, according to a new survey of qualified families.
Minnesota ranks sixth in the nation in terms of job losses due to the trade deficit between the United States and China, according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a liberal…
“We will fight, fight, fight – and make sure to get conservatives running for office and get the 219 traitors who voted for this thrown out of office. We will never give up,” said Don Blackford, a 49-year-old federal government employee from Logan who protested outside of President Barack Obama’s health care rally in Iowa City Thursday.
“After a year of debate and a century of trying, after so many of you shared your stories and your heartaches and your hopes, that promise was finally fulfilled. And today, health insurance reform is the law of the land,” President Barack Obama said Thursday in Iowa City.
Quietly, free of headlines and fanfare, the Obama White House is toning down the bellicose “war on drugs” position that’s defined the country’s narcotics policy for the last 25 years. Instead, the focus is on tackling addiction as an illness to be treated.
Rep. Keith Ellison spoke at the National Iranian American Council last week about the struggles facing the Iranian people as they protest the current regime. Ellison, Congress’ first Muslim, told attendees that freedom should be supported but not enforced.
Rep. Keith Ellison was the tie-breaking vote on a House Foreign Affairs Committee resolution calling on President Obama to “characterize the systematic and deliberate annihilation of 1.5 million Armenians as genocide.” The measure was vigorously opposed by Turkey, and…
Rep. Keith Ellison says he hasn’t yet made up his mind about whether or not Congress should recognize the Armenian Genocide of 1915 committed by the Ottoman Empire. A hearing is set for Thursday in the House Committee on Foreign…
One year after the Obama administration launched its $75 billion anti-foreclosure program, the housing market remains volatile, loan modifications have been scant, foreclosures are still sky-high — and more and more lawmakers are wondering why the White House hasn’t been more aggressive in tackling the crisis.
As job creation continues to be the caboose of economic recovery, employment experts of all stripes are hiking the pressure on Congress to tackle the crisis by encouraging employers to cut hours rather than firing workers. And more and more lawmakers are taking heed.
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