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The Federal Housing Finance Agency, the government regulator for Fannie and Freddie, approved $12.79 million in bonus pay after 10 executives from the two government-sponsored corporations last year met modest performance targets tied to modifying mortgages in jeopardy of foreclosure. The executives got the bonuses about two years after the federally backed mortgage giants received [...]
The number of Americans living in communities of extreme poverty — neighborhoods in which at least 40 percent of the population is poor — soared by one-third between 2000 and the latter half of the decade,according to a new study from the Brookings Institution. The marked increase in so-called concentrated poverty underscores the distress tearing [...]
I suffered through this season’s run of the Americanized version of Big Brother for one reason.
It wasn’t for the drama, or the plotting, or the conniving. And there was soooo much soap opera going on, without question! And inexplicable hypocrisy as well.
(Unless you’ve seen the U.S. version of Big Brother, you cannot fully appreciate how Hollywooded it has become since the first season or two.)
“You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The [...]
