We are just now seeing the ripple effects of the sub-prime mortgage crisis. “Rawstory.com” reported this weekend on how renters who have never missed a payment are being impacted by home owners defaulting on their mortgages. While the impact isn’t as drastic to renters, as they aren’t losing the years of equity homeowners lose, the cost of being displaced by eviction can add up. A bill passed on Thursday by the House seeks to protect renters by requiring new owners of properties previously foreclosed on to allow tenants to continue their lease for at least six months.
We are just now seeing the ripple effects of the subprime mortgage crisis. Rawstory.com reported this weekend on how renters who have never missed a payment are being impacted by home owners defaulting on their mortgages. While the impact isn’t as drastic to renters as they aren’t losing the years of equity homeowners lose, the cost of being displaced by eviction can add up. A bill passed on Thursday by the House seeks to protect renters by requiring new owners of property’s previously foreclosed on to allow tenants to continue their lease for at least six months.
Lede: One of America’s largest faith-based social service organizations says America has created a class of working poor people – an immoral reality that the American people need to change. Doug Cunningham reports.
By Doug Cunningham
Catholic Charities’ Candy Hill says her group has launched a campaign to cut poverty in half by 2020.
[Hill]: “What we see happening in our agencies are more and more people, particularly working people, who are coming to our doors. And they’re hungry and they don’t have places to live or they need utility assistance. And it’s more than we’ve seen in many, many years in our agencies.”
Lede: One of America’s largest faith-based social service organizations says America has created a class of working poor people – an immoral reality that the American people need to change. Doug Cunningham reports.
By Doug Cunningham
Catholic Charities’ Candy Hill says her group has launched a campaign to cut poverty in half by 2020.
[Hill]: “What we see happening in our agencies are more and more people – particularly working people – who are coming to our doors. And they’re hungry and they don’t have places to live or they need utility assistance. And it’s more than we’ve seen in many, many years in our agencies.”
As day 15 of a screenwriters’ strike begins, there is one glimmer of hope on the distant horizon. The two sides have agreed top sit down for the first time since the writers walked off the job on November 5. The date of the negotiations? November 26, meaning pens won’t start flowing and keyboards won’t start clattering for at least another nine days, and that’s assuming the two sides can come to terms with disagreements concerning work appearing on emerging technologies, such as the Internet and cell phones. The writers want residuals and the producers want to hold out as they experiment with how to use the new formats to reach consumers.
As day 15 of a screenwriters’ strike begins, there is one glimmer of hope on the distant horizon. The two sides have agreed top sit down for the first time since the writers walked off the job on November 5. The date of the negotiations? November 26, meaning pens won’t start flowing and keyboards won’t start clattering for at the least another nine days – and that’s assuming the two sides can come to terms with disagreements concerning work appearing on emerging technologies – such as the Internet and cell phones. The writers want residuals and the producers want to hold out as they experiment with how to use the new formats to reach consumers.
WIN Week In Review November 16-18, 2007
By Doug Cunningham
UAW Ford workers have ratified a contract with Ford that effectively repeals the 1950 “Treaty of Detroit” that set a high standard for manufacturing wages and benefits. The UAW says it protects active members and provides income and health care security for retired Ford UAW members. But for thousands of new autoworkers it cuts wages in half, ends employer-guaranteed retiree health care and reduces retirement security.
The House has passed a transportation bill that includes a ban on funding for Bush’s Mexican trucks program. The Teamsters’ Leslie Miller says the union is happy about the vote, but it won’t necessarily end the battle to keep unsafe Mexican trucks off U.S. highways.
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TWU members and Southwest Airlines flight attendants Maria Hank and April Bogart offer some holiday travel tips. |
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It could be worse. You could be on your way to the dentist for a root canal instead of getting ready to plunge into the Thanksgiving travel madness this week with tens of millions of your closest friends. On second thought….
We’ve got some advice for you from our friends and colleagues at Transport Workers (TWU) Local 556, the 9,200 flight attendants at Southwest Airlines. Before you fly away for the holiday, click on this video for important tips on how to avoid contracting a severe case of air rage, avoid delays and arrive at least a bit less stressed out.
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