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Economic downturn finds its roots in predatory lending
In 2008 the United States stock market crashed due to the rapidly increasing effects of the rising number of housing foreclosures. Investment firms including Lehman Brothers and secondary mortgage...
May 24, 2011
Animal welfare advocates strained for resources
Each year fewer than a hundred people in two townhouses provide shelter and care for more than 30,000 homeless animals in Washington, DC. That is what animal welfare looks like in the nation’s...
Jan 10, 2011
Leaving the rallies to restore sanity
On October 30th 215,000 people swarmed the national mall in Washington DC to attend the much anticipated Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. The rally, led by political satirists Jon Stewart and...
Nov 1, 2010
The new trend of going organic
There is a quickly growing trend spreading rapidly across the United States: going “natural”. Over the past 14
years the organic food industry in the US has transformed itself from a meager
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Mar 11, 2010
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