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...course, some say it is normal that banks would be hurting at this part of the recovery cycle. People and companies continue to fall behind on their debt obligations long after the economy turns. While the banks' lending operations still look weak, the volume of bad loans at many of the banks, including Citigroup and JPMorgan, are piling up slower than in the past...
Worse, some analysts say that even the banks' recently deflated earnings are likely stronger than they would have been without government help. Banks have been reporting that consumer credit is improving, with fewer individuals falling behind on their mortgage or credit-card bills. But programs like the government's Home Affordable Modification Program are allowing some borrowers to skip mortgage payments and temporarily lower their bills. If that is the main reason banks are reporting fewer bad loans, that improvement may not last...
...headaches that were so bad they made you nauseous, landed you in bed and sometimes lasted for days, you'd have a right to be depressed. Indeed, that has long been the reasoning behind the high depression rate among people with migraines - 46%, about four times higher than the rate in the overall population. The cause and effect - bad headaches lead to bad mood - seems obvious...
Aside from the increase in white-collar women, the other trend behind the Pew numbers is that marriage rates have declined most sharply among the least educated men and women, which helps explain why the median household income figures for married men have pulled even further ahead of those for their single counterparts. More of the least affluent are unmarried than before. (See the best business deals...
...income men and women tend to partner up and then uncouple more rapidly. "This leads to family instability and a cycle of disadvantage," says Conley. Single parents often have trouble moving ahead in their careers, while low-earning parents have little income to save or invest. They fall further behind, while the families with two college-educated earners pull ever more ahead...