Are Cars the New "Affordable Housing" for the Working Poor? - Huffingtonpost.com (Bakewell)

Are Cars the New "Affordable Housing" for the Working Poor? - Huffingtonpost.com
Yesterday, LAANE's research director Carolina Briones was a guest on the Patt Morrison Show , which airs on KPCC, a local NPR station. The subject was poverty, and LAANE had just released analysis of the new census data showing the extent of poverty at the loc
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Fiat Worker’s 7 Cars a Year Impair Europe Efficiency - BusinessWeek
(Updates with share performance in 22nd paragraph.) Sept. 27 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Co.’s 1,300 workers in Antwerp, Belgium, are fighting for their jobs, hoping for a white knight to rescue the factory from closure. “We’re trying to find an
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Government investigating power steering complaints in BMW's Mini Cooper cars - FOX6Now.com Milwaukee
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government opened an investigation on Tuesday into potential power steering problems in Mini Coopers built by German automaker BMW AG. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on its website that it had received 54
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Electric cars a 'moon shot' project for China - Houston Chronicle
China is doing moon shots. Yes, that's plural. When I say "moon shots," I mean big, multibillion-dollar, 25-year-horizon, game-changing investments. China has at least four going now: One is building a network of ultramodern airports; another is building a
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Tom Friedman's electric car aid acid test - Washington Post
Tom Friedman of the New York Times has been over to see the future in China again -- and guess what? It still works! The latest stroke of genius by Beijing’s enlightened central planners, Friedman reports, is "$15 billion in seed money for the country's
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