Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has recently signed two new housing laws: House Bill 5450 and House Bill 4521. House Bill 5450 opens up grant funds to people with disabilities under the umbrella of the Rental Housing Support Program. The funds will be administered by the Illinois Housing Department Authority (IHDA) and aims to match disabled… Read more »
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The Great Food Stamp Battle
If the House Agriculture Committee gets its way, we’ll see a massive $3.5 billion cut a year in a program that feeds 1 out of every 7 Americans. By the time the cuts come full circle, $16 billion would have been eliminated from the Supplementary Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) and will definitely make it harder… Read more »
The Cost of Compliance (And Non-Compliance) to the Affordable Care Act
Republicans are attempting to repeal the act for the 31st time, but the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) has been so far ruled constitutional by the Supreme Court. One of the main points of contention is the clause requiring people to get insurance or pay a tax for when the government bails out uninsured individuals… Read more »
Five Social Security ‘Secrets’ You Can Capitalize Before Retirement
Chances are you’re slogging to put food on the table and get your kids to school on time. Retirement then becomes something so far off that it’s unimaginable, especially since money is in very short supply right now. But like it or not, you will eventually have to plan for your retirement. A recent article… Read more »
Fed: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac “Mishandled” Foreclosed Homes in Florida
The real estate market is stinking bad, especially when whole blocks of foreclosed homes begin to pull property prices down in the surrounding areas. But the problem can be made much worse when the guys who are supposed to take care of these homes aren’t doing their jobs. That’s exactly what Fannie Mae and Freddie… Read more »
One Million Homeless Students – And Counting
The Department of Education has released the results of a recent study and pointed out that there were about one million homeless students in America from 2010 to 2011.1 If you want precise numbers, the DE reported 1,065,794 homeless students – a 13 percent jump from 2009 to 2011 and a whopping 57 percent jump… Read more »
Government Stepping Up Ads for Food Stamps
With all the problems with national funding and threats by conservatives to cut funding for the Supplementary Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP aka food stamps), the last thing you would expect is to see the government spend money to get more people on food stamps. But that is exactly what the current administration is doing. The… Read more »
