Sentences with phrase «national economic meltdown»

46 They are no longer viewed as people who flee from persecution but as people who run from their national economic meltdown and poverty.

Financial issues are also central to the Russell campaign, but the supervisor says he and the other Town Board members made difficult decisions during the early days of the national economic meltdown to lessen the blow on local taxpayers.

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I was worried that a NY race might not garner as much national media attention therefore Mr. Cuomo's time at HUD, which directly contributed to the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and sub-prime mortgage debacles, leading to the economic meltdown, might not be covered adequately however based on CNN's interest in Gov. Paterson and the NY Governor's seat I am sure CNN will spend ample time researching and explaining Cuomo's debacle.

His short mature career, from 1930 to 1942, spanned some of the most trying, soul - searching years for the United States, as the country grappled with the aftermath of an economic meltdown and engaged in vigorous, sometimes bitter debates over its core national identity.