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Aurelio Leonel Alvarez-Rosales earns about $300 a week painting houses in the sprawling suburbs north of Atlanta. He lives paycheck to paycheck and often has nothing left over at the end of each week. So on Friday nights, when Alvarez-Rosales, 21, goes to cash his check, he pulls into the parking lot at the Norcross branch of Banuestra, an alternative financial institution aimed at serving the estimated 40 million adults in the U.S. without bank accounts. For him, every dollar counts, and compared with the 24-hour Atlanta Check Cashers outlet down the road, which charges...
...growing portion of unbanked America comprises immigrants like Alvarez-Rosales. In states like Georgia, where immigrant communities are more recently established but growing quickly, immigrants are less likely to send money home, according to a new report from the Inter-American Development Bank, so they may have a greater need for banking services...
...Robert Alvarez, a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies who served in the Energy Department under President Bill Clinton, points out that none of the Presidential candidates have a solid resume on the issue of nuclear power. As a mayor, Giuliani had no jurisdiction over New York State's nuclear facilities, and Clinton has gained a seat on the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee only since the Democrats took control of Congress after last November's elections...
...Giuliani, Indian Point could be an early test of his credibility on the nuclear issue. Since he was a paid consultant who did public relations for the industry, says Alvarez, "it discredits him in my mind about this." Meanwhile, although Clinton has been issuing cautionary statements about Indian Point and nuclear security since 2003, activists are disappointed that she has not called for Indian Point's permanent closure, only for an independent review...
...progress forward. I haven’t seen that happen in my years here. I’m really encouraged.” In the women’s giant slalom, senior Katie Connors and junior Alexandria Teng placed in 40th and 41st, respectively, while sophomore Jessica Alvarez followed in 43rd. The men’s 20K classic featured solid finishes from Petrach, whose 38th place finish clinched Harvard’s top mark in the event, and Burruss, who came in 41st with a time of 1:08:25.8, his best finish as a college skier...