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Although mortgage interest rates have hit historic lows in recent years, many minorities are still missing out on the benefits of home ownership. High prices are partly to blame but so, apparently, is a sizable information gap, according to a survey out last week from mortgage financier Fannie Mae. Minorities are especially at risk of letting misperceptions prevent them from buying. For example, 73% of the general population know you don't have to have perfect credit to qualify for a mortgage. But only 57% of African Americans, 64% of Hispanics who speak mostly English at home...
...until the end of Bitches that the stereotypes get nasty in their references to race and religion. The Guerilla Girls discuss Sallie Mae, white trailer trash, Lauren, the Jewish American Princess (“What does she make for dinner? Reservations”), Susan, the White Girl Who Goes After Black Men and Tiffany, the Foxy Flygirl with six-inch fingernails. They argue that by laying these stereotypes out on the table we will be better able to disarm them, perhaps removing their power to shock and hurt...
Alan Greenspan was on an irascible roll last week, first dissing everyone who holds a fixed-rate mortgage--suckers!--and later picking on folks who collect Social Security: Get back to work, Grandma. In between, the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board scolded the big mortgage firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which make homeowning more affordable, for taking too much risk. In a couple of days' work, Greenspan went through sacred cows like an overzealous Atkins dieter...
...true you and Mae West clashed on the set of Myra Breckinridge...
...What would happen if a child at school pulled off a portion of another child's clothing? If Janet and Justin are not punished, then what precident have we created for our children? Mae Fraser West Chester...