Equifax is now facing federal class action lawsuits in New Jersey and Pennsylvania over claims files were mistakenly tagged with negative info.

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She glosses over their male counterparts who, to be sure, are having similar struggles to find employment in their chosen fields amidst ongoing layoffs and the snails-paced rate of job growth, and instead focuses on the over-achieving class of females who now collect more higher education degrees than our male classmates.

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Over that period, a large coastal affluent class, now increasingly elderly, enjoyed a spectacular run of rising real estate prices and in some places, like Silicon Valley, a progression of stock windfalls.

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Although flat into the IPO, AVEO is now up over 100% and is one of the high fliers of the Class of 2010.

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But there are steps we can take right now to put people back to work and restore some of the security that middle-class Americans have lost over the last few decades.

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Cricket gives them the opportunity to watch world-class sportsmen, and the game is now well enough entrenched to have become the subject of bitter wrangles over team selection, and the skills of the coach, the former West Indian batsman, Gordon Greenidge (who was granted Bangladeshi citizenship after the national team qualified for the World Cup).

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Too many Americans worked too hard over the past six years to ensure that the middle class gets a fair shot to stop now.

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Many investors with over 20 funds or multiple asset classes now will likely face a choice of picking a sector or asset class and funds that they are simply unfamiliar with.

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