Posts Tagged ‘relief’
GOP: Offsetting cuts must cover payroll tax relief (AP)
AP – Republican congressional leaders stressed a willingness Wednesday to extend a Social Security payroll tax cut due to expire Dec. 31, setting up a year-end clash with Democrats over how to pay for a provision at the heart of President Barack Obama’s jobs program.
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Medicare relief: premiums not as high as feared (AP)
AP – Medicare’s basic monthly premium will be much lower than expected next year, the government announced Thursday. That could pay political dividends for President Barack Obama and for Democrats struggling to win over seniors in a close election.
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Obama offers mortgage relief on western trip (AP)
AP – The Obama administration offered mortgage relief on Monday to hundreds of thousands of Americans in the latest attempt to ease the economic and political fallout of a housing crisis that has bedeviled President Barack Obama as he seeks a second term.
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Lupica: Khadafy death sparks relief & memories
On the day when he finds out that Moammar Khadafy is finally dead in Libya, Brian Flynn is 19 again and getting ready to drive with his mother and his sisters to JFK to pick up his brother J.P., returning from his semester in London.
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Relief, anger at mosque where al-Awlaki preached (AP)
AP – At the Washington-area mosque where Anwar al-Awlaki preached a decade ago, there were few tears over the death of the influential al-Qaida figure who more than anyone gave the Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center its unwanted association with international terrorism. But some found the way he was killed to be un-American.
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Flood worries and some relief in Irene’s wake (AP)
AP – Stripped of hurricane rank, Tropical Storm Irene spent the last of its fury Sunday, leaving treacherous flooding and millions without power — but an unfazed New York and relief that it was nothing like the nightmare authorities feared.
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Bondy: No relief in Mets’ long-term plan
The Mets’ third straight loss – a dramatic 7-3 defeat to the Florida Marlins in 10 innings on Monday – would be of little importance, except the Atlanta Braves have dropped two in a row and six of 10. There was a small, real chance for the Mets to make a serious wild-card move, if Sandy Alderson hadn’t exiled both Francisco Rodriguez and Carlos Beltran.
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