It’s a hot summer’s day, and Francine Dixon is sitting outside her Brooklyn café watching customers enter. Among the passersby, a middle-aged woman wearing a plastic hairnet and smeared magenta lipstick walks across Malcolm X Boulevard toward the entrance.
“You see that one right there?” Dixon says, motioning toward the woman. “I’ll bet you a quarter she’s gonna go in and ask for food.”
Two weeks after the coalition death toll in Iraq passed 4,000, and a month after one of the youngest casualties of the Iraq war – an 18-year-old Queens resident -- was buried, residents of the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn seem to agree that the U.S. has overstayed its welcome in the Middle East.
As seen in the New York Daily News. Those risky mortgages of recent years dragged down plenty of homeowners, but now they’re taking out many of the huge lenders that underwrote them. Big names like HSBC, Countrywide and even Citigroup have grappled with growing defaults. … Read More →
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As seen in the New York Daily News. Investing pools swell Mutual funds are a $10.8 trillion industry with 90 million investors in the U.S. alone, a new study found. According to researchers at California-based Tiburon Strategic Advisors, 641 mutual fund companies operate nearly 8,000 … Read More →
As seen in the New York Daily News. Market worries More money managers believe a stock market correction looms than at any other time in almost a decade, a new survey found. The number of planners telling New Rochelle-based newsletter Investors Intelligence they expect a … Read More →
Prisoners need help before and after release, experts say
When a prisoner is released on parole, he could use a little more than a rumpled suit, a couple of bucks and a hardened pack of chewing gum.
Like an apartment. Or a college degree. Or a job.
Or somebody to help him figure out how to get them.