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FEMA Wants Money Back from Katrina Victims
Tthe notoriously dysfunctional Federal Emergency Management Agency is now adding insult to injury for many by seeking to recoup nearly $400 million in relief funding paid out to hard hit and distressed victims of the storm.
Thousands Sterilized, a State Weighs Restitution
A task force is calculating North Carolina’s obligation to the estimated 7,600 victims of its eugenics program from 1933 to 1977, many of them poor and uneducated.
Living Without A Bank: Fees And Confusion Galore
Saying goodbye to the world of banks, entering the wilderness of unregulated fees.
Study: Poverty, More Than Race, Linked To HIV
First-of-its-Kind Analysis by U.S. Government Finds HIV Is Epidemic in Certain Poverty-Stricken Urban Areas
Government Goes High-Tech To Redesign $100 Bills
WASHINGTON — The folks who print America’s money have designed a high-tech makeover of the $100 bill. It’s part of an effort to stay ahead of counterfeiters as technology becomes more sophisticated and more dollars flow overseas, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says.
