Women In Politics

In NH, Trump Takes Credit for Obama Birth Info
In showy NH stop, Trump dismisses critics, takes credit for Obama’s release of birth record

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Trump takes credit for Obama birth information
DOVER, N.H. — After weeks of suggesting Barack Obama was born in Africa, Donald Trump hastened to boast that he had forced the Democratic president to release a detailed Hawaii birth certificate disproving that claim, painting an apparent setback as a victory within minutes of arriving in the first-in-the-nation primary …

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Consumer 10.0: How the Pew Trusts aided credit card reform
It was early 2007, and Michael Roster and Dwane Krumme each viewed the credit card industry with growing dismay. Each had played a role in its development – Krumme as a banker, and Roster as a prominent industry lawyer. Now, each saw that the business had turned into a trap for unwary consumers dragged down by billions of dollars in tricky fees and sky-high penalty

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Credit raters could get reprieve in Wall Street bill
Credit rating agencies like Moody’s Corp and Standard & Poor’s hoped to win a reprieve on Tuesday from a proposal that would upend their business model as U.S. lawmakers sat down to craft a final rewrite of financial regulations

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Lawmakers gird for showdown on credit raters
Lawmakers on Tuesday girded for a showdown over a measure that could upend the business model of credit rating agencies like Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s Corp., in the first real test of the congressional panel crafting a final Wall Street reform bill.

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Statement by President Obama on House Passage of the Small Business Lending Fund and Small Business Credit Initiative
I thank the House of Representatives for passing legislation that includes two of our key initiatives to help America’s small businesses and entrepreneurs create jobs and promote recovery. Our nation’s small businesses are the backbone of the American economy and the main drivers of private job creation, and today’s approval of our Small Business Lending Fund and State Small Business Credit …

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Jennifer Waters’ Consumer Confidential: Secrets to keeping your credit score high
A happy consequence of this Great Recession is that Americans are widely expected to be better consumers.

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Reform brings health-care credit for small businesses
Check your mailbo: 4 million companies across the country are getting postcards soon from the Internal Revenue Service.

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Couple Denied Home Buyer Tax Credit Because of Marriage
Buyers, sellers and realtors agree that the home buyer tax credit has worked, but it has not worked for everybody.

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Married Couple Denied Home Buyer Tax Credit Because of Marriage
Buyers, sellers and realtors agree that the home buyer tax credit has worked, but it has not worked for everybody.

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