From Reuters: The Federal Housing Finance Agency said it was scrapping a cap that prohibited borrowers whose mortgages exceeded 125 percent of their property’s value from refinancing loans backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac under the government’s Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP). It also took steps to coax homeowners…
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From Constitutional Law Prof Blog: In an Order [yesterday], Federal District Judge Mary Scriven issued a preliminary injunction against the enforcement of Florida Statute §414.0652, a law championed by controversial governor Rick Scott requiring drug testing for each individual who applies for benefits under the federally funded TANF (Temporary Assistance…
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From the Christian Science Monitor: Farmers fearing a labor shortage are protesting recent immigration laws they say are too harsh, forcing undocumented workers to flee to prevent deportation. They say US workers are unwilling to endure the rigorous conditions of farm work and that state legislators need to come up…
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From Workplace Prof Blog: [The] New York Times reports that Wal-Mart is substantially “rolling back” health care coverage for part-time workers and raising premiums for full-timers: Citing rising costs, Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest private employer, told its employees this week that all future part-time employees who work less than 24…
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From Colorlines: What happens when the police officer who works at your high school also happens to moonlight as an immigration agent conducting raids in the neighborhood where you live? Latino middle and high school students in the small Colorado town of Carbondale started reporting exactly this over a year…
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From Prison Culture Blog: I am pissed off at Lil Wayne and it isn’t even his fault… When he was incarcerated at Rikers Island, I started a blog series titled “Prison is NOT a Country Club (Contra Lil’ Wayne).” This was my humble attempt to push back against the media…
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From ScienceProgress: The biggest controversy in the world of astronomy today is the James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the wildly popular Hubble Space Telescope. The controversy is budgetary: Webb’s estimated cost has risen from $1.6 billion, a decade ago, to $8.7 billion today. Of this $500 million is…
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