> Women Have the Voting Power to Control This Election
>

> The 'Mortgage Meltdown' Was No Accident
>

> Lengthy but a worthy read.

> Women Have the Voting Power to Control This Election
>
> By Martha Burk, Ms. Magazine. Posted June 30, 2008.
>
> The economy, war, the health care crisis and tax policies all affect
> women differently than men. And women have the power to change them
> all.
>
> (The full text of this article appears in the Spring issue of Ms.
> Magazine, available on newsstands and by subscription from
> www.msmagazine.com.)
>
> Too often an election will be dramatically characterized as the
> "election of the century," or "the most important election in our
> lifetime." But this time it may be true.
>
> In the past eight years, the U.S. has gone from record surpluses to
> record deficits. We are at war in two countries with no end in sight. ...

> The 'Mortgage Meltdown' Was No Accident
>
> By Kai Wright, The Nation. Posted June 30, 2008.
>
> How the mortgage industry stole black America's hard-won wealth.
>
> Research support for this article was provided by the Investigative
> Fund of The Nation Institute.
>
> George Mitchell's wife, Lillian, took her last breath in the house she
> loved, on New Year's Day 2006. "Right there in that spot," says
> George, 77, nodding to the far end of his worn, floral-print couch. "I
> think the last words she spoke was my name."
>
> "Yup," confirms his youngest daughter, Chandra Chavis. "I was trying
> to perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation at the time." She points out
> the living room window to the small, sloping front yard and drive.
> "There was no address on the house, so I had to stop doing that to get ...

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