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2,000th Home Milestone Reached in Four Years--Work Begins on 2,001st Home
Business  (tags: Habitat for Humanity, Minneapolis-based Thrivent Financial for )

Kristi
- 10 hours ago - habitat.org
Habitat for Humanity and Minneapolis-based Thrivent Financial for Lutherans will celebrate a milestone of their $125-million alliance and kick off a new $15 million commitment to affordable housing in 2010.
Obama's Trumped-Up Job Count Fails Science Test
Business  (tags: obama, PresidentBarackObama, WhiteHouse, u.s., UnitedStates, America, americans, politics, government, business, jobs, unemployment, money, economy, economic-crisis, bloomberg, corruption, dishonesty, news, society )

SirRobert
- 8 days ago - bloomberg.com
President Barack Obama had stated his administration had saved and created a surplus of jobs recently and at first it was an unverifiable assertion, then it became bureaucratic ineptitude with possible fraud involvement. Obama's transparency isn't working
Obama Administration Steps Up Pressure On Mortgage Lenders
Business  (tags: obama, housing, loans, lenders, mortgages, business, economy, society, u.s., news, economic-crisis, financial, money, homeless, politics, government, democrats, republicans, congress, consumers, foreclosures )

SirRobert
- 1 day ago - latimes.com
Mortgage lenders are being pressured to re-negotiate the terms on critical U.S. housing loans, while the rising foreclosure rate still threatens the national economy like an incoming sandstorm.
Tell Secretary Chu: Not With Our Money Please Take Action!!!!
Business  (tags: government, money, dept of energy, nuclear power plants )

Tierney
- 4 days ago - action.citizen.org
The Department of Energy is considering risking billions of taxpayer dollars on loan guarantees for construction of new EPR nuclear reactors. One of these reactors--Calvert Cliffs-3 on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland--is reportedly on DOE's
Comcast-NBC Deal Raises Concerns About Media Consolidation/Politicians and Consumer Activists Call for Intense Scrutiny of the P
Business  (tags: Monopoly, Comcast, NBC, Consumer Protection )

Kristi
- 2 days ago - latimes.com
The proposed marriage of Comcast Corp.,the nation's largest cable and broadband provider, with NBC Universal, a Hollywood powerhouse, presents the Obama administration with its first big chance to weighin on the controversial issue of media consolidation.
Giant Organic Livestock Operation Decertified By USDA
Business  (tags: corruption, farming, organic, food, agriculture )

Beth
- 4 days ago - commondreams.org
In an investigation and legal case that dragged on for almost four years, one of the largest organic cattle producers in the United States, Promiseland Livestock, LLC, was suspended from organic commerce, along with its owner and key employees for...
Help Fight Monsanto in the Supreme Court
Business  (tags: food, farming, GMOs, genetically modified, consumers, business, dishonesty, ethics, food safety )

Roseann
- 2 days ago - truefoodnow.org
Over the past few years, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) has used groundbreaking legal victories and grassroots campaigns to protect your food by putting a halt on the sale and plantings of many GMO crops.
OBAMA: NO MORE 'WAIT AND SEE' APPROACH ON JOBS
Business  (tags: economy, jobs, obama, Biden )

Mamabear
- 3 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
White House Holds Jobs Summit... How To Get Small Businesses Hiring Again
Economy Hits Groups Helping Military Families
Business  (tags: culture, military, society, holiday giving, economy, consumers, americans, news )

Cal
- 2 days ago - usatoday.com
Groups that help military families are reporting a drop in cash donations at a time of greater need for those struggling in a down economy while one or more parents fight in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Selling Indonesia's Coast for Cheap Prawns and Profit
Business  (tags: habitatdestruction, destruction, world, rights, culture, business, corruption, government, society, politics, money, corporate, dishonesty, economy )

Cal
- 5 days ago - theecologist.org
Set against the looming construction cranes and gleaming plastic roofs of the newly built factories, the last remaining fishing village in Jakarta Bay looks increasingly out of place.
 
 
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