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    Jaclyn Snow

    • Home prices are expected to drop at a slower rate for the second month in a row, a sign of a new, if faint, stabilization in the housing market. Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller home-price indices for February will be released tomorrow with an estimated 3.4 percent year-over-year drop average according to 31 economists surveyed by [...]

    • U.S. home prices dropped for the ninth consecutive month in January and despite a smaller decline than previous months, the numbers are only encouraging compared to the market’s previous tumbles. The average home price dropped 3.8 percent according to Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller home-price indices for the 20 largest metropolitan areas. Prices are now at [...]

      Jaclyn Snow wrote a new blog post: Home Prices Fell to 2003 Levels in January   1 year, 1 month ago · View

    • This graph shows different price rebounds in Southwest Florida. By Jackie Snow The average single-family home prices rose over 30 percent in Lee County in January compared to January 2011, causing some analysts to claim Southwest Florida is coming back after years of depressed prices. But this apparent recovery in Lee County is primarily the result [...]

    • U.S. home prices fell to its lowest levels in six years in December, according to Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller home-price indices. Home prices fell 3.8 percent and 4 percent year-over-year. Prices are a third lower than their peak in 2006. This is the eighth month in a row of price decreases. “In terms of prices, [...]

      Jaclyn Snow wrote a new blog post: U.S. Home Prices Continue to Fall   1 year, 2 months ago · View

    • A Williamsburg store offers brunch with board games. Twenty Sided Store , which opened in April, sells board games but dedicates much of its space to tables for gaming events. In an age of video games, the owners hope to help revive board games as a social event – even if it means baking pastries to sweeten [...]

      Jaclyn Snow wrote a new blog post: Board Game Store Roles the Dice   1 year, 4 months ago · View

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      “The economy is affecting my holiday season because I can’t afford to be with my family.”

      Jaclyn Snow wrote a new blog post: Emma Goldman, 25, Manhattan   1 year, 5 months ago · View

    • Thumbnail A protestor sleeping on the ground at Zuccotti Park/em> The mercury dipped below 50 for the first time today since the Occupy Wall Street protest began on Sept. 17. Now two representatives from Tom Brown Jr. tracker school in Manahawkin, NJ are organizing workshops to prepare the park’s residents. The tracker program includes wilderness survival training [...]

      Jaclyn Snow wrote a new blog post: Survivalists help prepare protestors as winter looms   1 year, 7 months ago · View

    • Thumbnail This recession has hit the men particularly hard , with mass layoffs in male-dominated industries like construction. This is having an interesting effect on leveling the historic pay differences between the sexes, a feat that could not be accomplished by the Equal Pay Act a half-century ago. Brooklyn, the second most diverse county in the country (after [...]

      Jaclyn Snow wrote a new blog post: Is this a Mancession? The Pay Gap seems to think so.   1 year, 7 months ago · View

    • Thumbnail President Barack Obama meets with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling in the Oval Office, Aug. 5, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) Obama is presiding over an unemployment rate over that has hovered over nine percent since taking office. While some of this is inherited from Bush, the [...]

      Jaclyn Snow wrote a new blog post: What can Obama do before the 2012 Elections to create jobs?   1 year, 7 months ago · View

    • Thumbnail Don Ward calling out while finishing a shoeshine Don Ward is always looking at shoes. “Look at your shoes gentlemen, you’re never gonna get that promotion,” he calls after a gaggle of young men walking by him. Ward, 42, works as a shoeshiner on 47th and 6th, a job he’s had for the last ten years. [...]

      Jaclyn Snow wrote a new blog post: Don Ward Interview – Shoeshiner at 47th and 6th   1 year, 9 months ago · View

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      Professor Glenn lecturing about Wordpress during CUNY’s orientation.

      Jaclyn Snow wrote a new blog post: Professor Glenn on Wordpress   1 year, 9 months ago · View