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...similar reports from her colleagues. "I imagine that as the economy worsens, [child-abuse specialists are] only going to be more and more busy," she says, adding that the recession will likely mean less funding for already strained social services. "As the pressures on families are increasing markedly, the amount of help available goes down," she says...
While the schools struggle to budget for this new development, Harvard’s money managers plan to increase the University’s financial flexibility by upping cash holdings and reducing the amount of risk in the endowment portfolio...
...risk with waiting around, though, is that a fund that closed once before in order to protect current shareholders is likely to do it again. One idea that Stanasolovich floats is investing the minimum amount required - often $2,000 - in order to lock in as a shareholder; existing investors normally can keep putting in more money even after a fund is closed...
...Foreclosures more than doubled in '08 compared to '07, year over year," Zalewski says. Creeping unemployment, tight credit and property devaluation, where the home is worth less than the amount owed on the mortgage, all tend to indicate the problem will only get worse. "Short of a government intervention, I would envision that we continue to grow higher and higher and higher," he predicts. "I wouldn't be surprised if we approached 100,000 [foreclosures"] in 2009, short of government intervention...
...Schwarzenegger plan would give banks and mortgage servicing companies an out. If they don't want to wait the 90 days, they could agree to temporary interest-rate cuts to reduce the homeowner's monthly payments to an affordable amount. The idea is to make it possible for homeowners to pay their mortgages rather than writing off their debt as bad loans...