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Delegates going to Cairo should keep these subtle signals in mind and scale back their ambitions to reform the world as they formulate their action plan. Government programs that subsidize jobs or housing can spur population growth ( by giving people false confidence in the future, while a tiny loan that enables a woman in Bangladesh to buy a sewing machine to start a business may give her an incentive to limit the number of children she bears. Such empowerment is more achievable in the developing world than paid maternal leave, day care and other high-minded calls that characterize population...
...lack of accessibility has forced many inner-city dwellers to turn to storefront check- cashing offices, which can charge as much as 3% of the value of a check. A 1991 Los Angeles city council survey found 133 check-cashing offices -- vs. only 19 bank and savings-and-loan branches -- serving South Central L.A.'s largely minority population of nearly 600,000. Right next door, more affluent (and Anglo) Gardena had 21 bank branches for fewer than 50,000 residents. Elsewhere, many consumers are fleeing to credit unions to escape the escalating bank costs. Membership in these nonprofit institutions, which...
...First Couple spent part of their weekend being grilled by Special Prosecutor Robert Fiske, who is investigating Whitewater. One focus of the interviews: any contact the White House had with regulators overseeing a probe into the alleged Savings and Loan scandal. Another area of concern was whether anyone tampered with evidence following the suicide of White House aide Vincent Foster. Just when Fiske will turn over his findings to Congress remains unclear, though the Clintons would probably prefer a release date as far from the 1996 election as possible. In the last comparable presidential inquiry, a subpoenaed former President Ronald...
Under the current basic payment plan, a loan is repaid over 10 years at a fixed rate. Now students will have the option to extend the payment time under either a fixed or variable rate...
Another option offered will be a graduated payment schedule with loan debts growing larger the longer a student is out of school...