ACORN sliding toward bankruptcy? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Saturday, March 20th, 2010 at 7:47 pm  
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The Christian Knowledge Monitor – The quick images of ACORN workers selection a faux pimp and prostitute set up a tax shelter for a brothel certainly played into the advocacy group’s slide toward liquidation, though its problems started long before last year’s scandal.

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Democrats push toward Sunday vote on health care (AP)

Friday, March 19th, 2010 at 5:35 am  
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Clinic workers hold signs and chant during a rally in support of US President Barack Obama's health care reform package in Oakland, California, on March 17. US President Barack Obama on Thursday scrapped a planned trip to Asia in favor of making an 11th-hour drive to see his historic health care overhaul through a cliffhanger Sunday vote.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)AP – Slowly but steadily, support is building behind President Barack Obama’s health care legislation in the House, the result of intense lobbying and politically targeted changes aimed at reassuring waverers and winning over critics.


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Senate moves toward a deal on Wall Street regs (AP)

Monday, March 1st, 2010 at 9:07 pm  
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US civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson, pictured in 2009, threw his weight Monday behind international calls for a tax on financial transactions to recoup losses from the economic crisis.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Jason Kempin)AP – Senate negotiators closed in on a deal on Wall Street set of laws Monday, proposing a new entity inside the Federal Reserve to oversee consumer financial products ranging from credit cards to mortgages.


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