Word: lowing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...even the home lender of last resort is increasingly ditching those with low scores in favor of people with better credit. In the last seven months of 2009, the most recent data available, the FHA, which doesn't make its own loans but provides insurance for lenders that do, backed just $8.3 billion in loans to borrowers with a credit score of 619 or worse. That's down from $39 billion in the same time period a year before. (See a report card on the stimulus programs...
...panelists touched on issues ranging from controlling overpopulation to placing power plants in low-income areas, which they said affected women’s reproductive health...
Pernicious effects of toxins released from power plants and other sources of pollution disproportionally affect low-income populations, Jackson said, adding that landfills and other pollutants are more commonly found in poor neighborhoods...
...Toxins are linked to birth defects, miscarriages, and problems with fertility and reproduction, and women in low-income areas are disproportionately exposed to these toxins,” Jackson said...
Blechman and Jackson stressed the importance of giving low-income groups exposed to environmental toxins a say in decisions—such as power plant placement—that impact their health...