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...mortgage delinquency rates the economy is getting worse as each month passes. According to TransUnion, a leading consumer credit reporting agency, mortgage loan delinquency, traditionally seen as a precursor to foreclosures, increased for the eighth quarter in a row. This statistic is up approximately 53% from the same period last year. Likely contributing to that rise, unemployment rose in February from 7.6 to 8.1%. And a new Reuters poll of economists forecasts that unemployment will top 10% as early as next year...
...December and January alone, as many as 14,000 people per day lost their insurance coverage, the CAP study shows. A second report, released earlier this month by the nonprofit Families USA, found that about 87 million people - roughly 1 in 3 Americans - went without health insurance for some period between 2007 and 2008. "The huge number of people without health coverage is worse than an epidemic," says Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA. "Almost everyone in the country has had a family member, neighbor or friend who was uninsured." (Read the five truths about health care in America...
...have done some things better,” Gotschall said. “We win as a team, lose as a team.”The Crimson started off the match with a bang, with freshman Kevin Vaughan scoring from sophomore Christian Oberbeck only six seconds into the first period. Georgetown retaliated with two tallies, bringing the Hoyas into the lead, but Harvard tied up the game with only two seconds remaining in the quarter with an unassisted goal from Motschwiller.The lead kept switching, as Georgetown recorded two more tallies towards the end of the second period, followed...
...long maintained his innocence, became just the second accused Holocaust war criminal sentenced to death by the state of Israel, but he was released when exculpatory evidence withheld at his trial later emerged. He has had his U.S. citizenship revoked, then reinstated. In March 2009, after a protracted period of diplomatic wrangling, Demjanjuk was extradited to Germany, where a German court charged the 89-year-old with being an accessory to at least 27,900 murders. The allegations stem not from Ivan the Terrible's reign at Treblinka but rather from Demjanjuk's alleged role as a guard at Sobibor...
...country to economic reform and joining the World Trade Organization, the administration of President Hu and Premier Wen Jiabao seems "paralyzed by fear of the downside," as Bequelin of Human Rights Watch puts it. He says the state's level of control has always oscillated, but with a long period of heavy repression having already past and no prospect of relief in sight, the risk of serious destabilization is growing fast...