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...Senate On April 10, the Senate passed the Foreclosure Prevention Act, which would give $6 billion in tax breaks to home builders--and to airlines and other struggling businesses. The bill would also increase the maximum mortgage limit that the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) can insure...
...Sebastian and the New Pornographers form the backbone of most songs. Rarely is this better shown than on the old song “Don’t Tell Me to Do the Math(s).” The song’s oblique lyrics are shouted out at maximum intensity: “You know that we could sell you magazines / If only you could give your life to literature / Just don’t read ‘Jane Eyre.’” Producer David Newfeld (Broken Social Scene) places the vocals at the front...
...most important change that this bill would enact would be to raise the maximum number of Pell Grants, the federal grant for students from low-income families, raising the grants $750 above their present ceiling. It is the specificity of this bill that tries to help students avoid private loans that is essential to its overall merit. To persuade students that have turned to the costlier private loans because they are able to borrow more money, Kennedy’s bill also raises the amount a student may borrow in a federal loan for a financially dependent undergraduate...
...affluent farmers could be better spent elsewhere. In 2005, the government doled out $25 billion to farmers, which was 50 percent more than the amount received by welfare families. Many in the executive and legislative branch agree, and have tried to cut back the subsidies and dramatically lower the maximum income level for receiving them. Still, the farming industry and its lobbyists won’t go without a fight, and the deeply ingrained subsidy programs will require a struggle to dismantle. Farming has a particularly strong valence in our national consciousness. The image of the courageous yeoman farmer, rising...
...spite of the writer’s strike—will soon start its sophomore season. While cable television has certainly been home to a host of dysfunctional, even inhuman protagonists, most live life atop unusual and generally unsavory backdrops—notably, morgues, maximum-security prisons, and New Jersey.Like its big-sister show “Weeds,” though, “Californication” takes place in the well-to-do suburbs of Los Angeles, a part of the country in which family dysfunction has almost invariably been depicted to be the unfortunate...