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Wall Street has spent millions lobbying to weaken many features of Dodd-Frank financial reform law that are not yet in place. Goldman Sachs, for instance, has spent $15 million lobbying since 2009. CEO of Goldman Sachs Lloyd Blankfein, who has said before that he thinks the “ vast bulk ” of the Wall Street reform law is good, suggested there are even parts of Dodd-Frank that might not go far enough : Overall we needed to have reform

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Government-sponsored mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac helped prevent 129,000 foreclosures in the second quarter of 2012, the Federal Housing Finance Agency reports. Fannie and Freddie have now completed more than 275,000 foreclosure prevention efforts this year thanks to the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) and other housing programs, HousingWire reported Wednesday. Nearly 30 percent of the actions included some form of principal forgiveness.

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Our guest blogger is Heather Boushey, a senior economist at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. New data released this morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the private-sector added 450,000 more jobs as of March 2012 than previously thought. This means that the economy has crossed the threshold and more jobs have been created than lost during President Obama’s term

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Nearly one-in-five American households now have student loan debt, according to a study released by the Pew Research Center. Overall, 19 percent of households carried some amount of student debt in 2010, up from just 15 percent in 2007.

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Here’s a little story about wind you might have heard. First we’ll tell it the way it happened.

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The experience of a small business owner who will be promoted at the Republican National Convention sharply diverges from the right-wing media myth her speech is intended to promote. On the day that the GOP convention will tout Fox-fueled myth “We Built It” as its primary theme, Delaware Lt. Gov

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Dashboard is the brand new organizing platform for President Obama’s 2012 campaign. If you’re hoping to make an impact on this election, … In Ryan, Romney has selected a running mate best known for designing the extreme GOP budget that would end Medicare as we know it, and—just like Romney’s plan—actually raise taxes on middle-class Americans to pay for an additional $250000 tax break for millionaires and billionaires.

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The Romney campaign, which has apparently exhausted the selectively edited clip of President Obama saying “you didn’t build that,” has seized on a new soundbite to distort. The campaign sent an email blast Thursday afternoon featuring a video of an Obama rally in Colorado from earlier that day and falsely claimed that he wants the government to bail out every industry. “I Want To Do The Same Thing With Manufacturing Jobs … In Every Industry,” it read.

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The more people with visible tattoos who advocate for clean energy,” President Clinton said, “the more success it will have in Washington.”

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Even as the national unemployment rate ticked up ever so slightly in July, the unemployment rate for veterans fell to its lowest level in more than three years, dropping to 6.9 percent. That figure is the lowest monthly unemployment rate for all veterans since before President Obama took office

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