Economy
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Aug- 2019 -5 August
Federal Reserve Makes First Interest Rate Cut Since 2008
WASHINGTON INFORMER — The Federal Reserve has cut the interest rate by one-quarter of a percentage point, marking the first such cut in 11 years. The announcement made Wednesday at the…
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5 August
D.C. Scholarship Program Needs Budget Increase
WASHINGTON INFORMER — Faced with its biennial reauthorization, the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program stands in need of a budget increase to serve the needs of a growing list of students seeking…
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4 August
Volusia sets Irma infrastructure funding meeting
DAYTONA TIMES — Volusia County’s Community Assistance Division will meet with municipalities and the public at 2 p.m. Monday, Aug. 5, in the second-floor Dennis R. McGee Room at Daytona Beach…
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2 August
Regulatory rollback on student loans takes away borrower protections
CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — Every Fourth of July celebrates this nation’s founding. But this year, only a few days before the annual freedom celebration, an ill-advised governmental action will financially doom rather…
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Jul- 2019 -31 July
City Council Approves Mayor’s $451M Budget for FY20
BIRMINGHAM TIMES — More than two months after Mayor Randall Woodfin presented his fiscal 2020 budget and three weeks after the fiscal year began July 1, the Birmingham City Council voted…
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25 July
Are Low-Income Residents a Priority?
THE AFRO — Water has for the most part has been restored to the residents of Poe Homes in West Baltimore. But an air of wariness remains among residents at…
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25 July
$44.4 More Million for Homeless
OAKLAND POST — In an unusual unanimous vote, the Oakland City Council passed the Oakland Together budget that included $44.4 million in amendments to the administration’s original proposal, focusing city investments…
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23 July
Schumer: “Any Unnecessary Delays to Honor Harriet Tubman, Especially for Political Reasons, Are Improper and Unacceptable”
NNPA NEWSWIRE — More than three years ago, under President Obama, the Treasury Department announced the redesign of the $20 note featuring Harriet Tubman’s portrait would be released in 2020,…
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22 July
Colorado Petroleum Council Focus on Enhancing Communities
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The natural gas and oil industry is projected to create 1.3 million new jobs between 2015 and 2025, with that number growing to 1.9 million by 2035.…
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20 July
MLK Freedom Center Receives State Funding
OAKLAND POST — The California statewide Youth And Family Civic Engagement Initiative, a joint program of the Dolores Huerta Foundation in Bakersfield and the Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Center in…
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