SPECIAL DEPORTATION
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The immigration activists who campaigned to end the federal “special registration” program say their fight isn’t over.
HOPE RE-BORN
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The House is expected to approve the final version of a bill reauthorizing the HOPE VI program and creating first-time homebuyers aid today.
SECTION 8 SAVE
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Congress has stepped up in the eleventh hour to avert the possibility that there would not be enough money to fund even existing vouchers, let alone offer new ones.
LAST CHANCE–FOR NOW
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If Congress doesn’t extend the feds’ emergency unemployment benefits program next week, it will expire while their on holiday break.
Neighborhoods
MURKY CLEAN-UP
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New rules meant to help cities use state grants for brownfields clean-ups may not be enough to help the city.
Hunger
ACROSS THE BOARD
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Black and Latino students trail their white classmates on every one of more than a dozen predictors of academic achievement.
BANKING SETTLEMENT
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ACORN has reached a proposed settlement in its suit against the infamous mortgage lender Household International.
GIFT GUIDES
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Forbes magazine has published its annual ratings of 200 of the nation’s largest nonprofit groups.
RAGS TO RICHES
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AmeriCorps’ fate turned around sharply last week when congressional negotiators agreed to a massive funding boost.
ELECTRIC CARS
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The city added 352 nearly zero emission, electric cars to its fleet yesterday.
