Word: rising
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...sign that the two companies have been active in helping people get new loans or refinance existing ones. And mortgage rates, though up recently, are down from where they were when the companies were taken over, a further indication that their added liquidity is helping. Foreclosures continue to rise, but the government's latest plan to modify mortgages seems to be making some headway...
...money couldn't come at a better time. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, unemployment for 16-to-19-year-olds is nearly 23%; that's more than double the 9.2% national unemployment rate and the highest it's been since 1992. Why the steep rise? For starters, there's this little thing called the recession. But concern about youth employment also pretty much fell off the federal radar in recent years. Back when President Lyndon Johnson launched the War on Poverty in 1965, the Federal Government started funding summer-jobs programs for low-income youth. These efforts included...
...Midwest have warmed by a few degrees, and the number of winter days without frost has increased by about a week. Sea levels have already risen by 8 inches or more in some coastal areas of the U.S., and under the business-as-usual scenario, they could rise 3 to 4 feet by the end of the century - enough to put much of Florida, including the Everglades and the Keys, under water. "Much of the foot-dragging on addressing climate change reflects the perception that it is way down the road and only affects remote parts of the planet," says...
...TIME's photo-essay "The Rise and Fall of the Shah of Iran...
...TIME's photo-essay "The Rise and Fall of the Shah of Iran...