Topic: Personal Finance
Student aid linked to health care gets a trim
AP Features
Congressional Democrats on Thursday trimmed their original student loan plans, reduced spending for community colleges, and eliminated early childhood money from a broad rewrite of a college aid bill piggybacked on to fast-track health care legislation. The student loan measure would be the biggest change in college assistance programs since ...
Fed's emergency loans decline in past week
AP News
Banks reduce their borrowing by average of $2.24 billion from Fed's emergency loan programBanks borrowed less from the Federal Reserve's emergency lending program over the past week in a further sign that the strains from the financial crisis are fading. The Fed reported Thursday that daily borrowing ...
Obama health plan faces Sunday make-or-break vote
AFP Global Edition
President Barack Obama's Democrats predicted victory in a cliffhanger vote Sunday on his historic plan to extend health care coverage to some 32 million Americans who lack it now. The 10-year plan, Obama's top domestic priority, aimed to bring the world's richest country closer than ever to ...
Mortgage rates still below 5 percent
AP News
Rates on 30-year mortgages edge up, but remain below 5 percent as Fed prepares exitMortgage rates held below the 5 percent threshold for the third straight week as the Federal Reserve prepares to end a program that has kept rates at or near record lows. The average rate on a ...
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