More than three years into the housing crisis that helped trigger a worldwide recession, the torrid pace of home foreclosures continues to tear at the core of the American dream.
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(Editor's note: The legal notice section of the News-Bulletin recently carried 41 foreclosure or foreclosure sale notices on one day. This article, the first in a two-part series, looks at what's behind the foreclosure rate and factors that influence it. A sidebar looks at steps homeowners can take to deal with the prospect of foreclosure. On Saturday, Part 2 in the series examines personal ...
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WASHINGTON, July 27 (UPI) -- A Siemens Energy, Inc. sale of generators to South Korea is a timely rescue package for jobs at several U.S. manufacturing units, officials said. South Korea - United States - Asia - Siemens - Manufacturing
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Detroit attorney Jerome Goldberg leads moratorium activists. A small group of people gathered on Detroit's west side last week to celebrate what appeared to be a victory.
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MADISON, MS (WLBT) - Tammy Ravenstein is a single mother of two children who needed help with her mortgage. "I wanted to take advantage of something that was out there that other people were getting," Ravenstein said.
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What's Your Reaction? After a weekend of base-rallying at Netroots Nation, progressives had a bummer of a Tuesday on Congress' first full day since the conference.
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Paperwork snafus have roiled applicants since the Obama administration's foreclosure-prevention plan was announced in February 2009.
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Mortgage loan defaults in California have plunged to their lowest level in three years as lenders try to work to keep troubled borrowers in their homes, a research firm said Wednesday.
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The loan mod picture is still very busy, but borrowers in South Florida continue to drop out of the Obama administration's Making Home Affordable program.
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It's hard to describe just how truly wretched Labor's new climate change policy is. It makes the CPRS, its dog of an emissions trading scheme, look like a model of best practice.
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