State of the Nation's Housing 1992 reports housing costs gap
The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies says falling mortgage rates lower owner costs but rising rents hit low income households hardest. The Ford Foundation funded study notes fewer than 200,000 new low cost rental units built last year, while subsidies decline and incomes stagnate. Authorities warn expanded public aid is needed to prevent greater poverty.
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Harvard University Joint Center For Housing Studies
Ford Foundation
James Brown
Joint Center
William Apgar
Jay Shackford
National Association of Home Builders
Barry Zigas
National
Zigas
Robert J. Sheehan
National Apartment Association
Canada Shows Lower Prescription Drug Prices Than U S
A congressional GAO study finds U S prescription drugs cost on average 32 percent more than in Canada. Government mass buying and regulation by Canada curb prices, with most drugs costing less. angina medicine Nsordil is over nine times pricier in the United States.
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Washington
United States
Canada
General Accounting Office
Congress
Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories
Nsordil
United
WEG
Henry Waxman
D-Calif
GAO
Waxman
House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee On Health and the Environment
U.S
Quake odds fall as Parkfield warning continues
In Parkfield California the odds of a magnitude five point five to six quake by tonight dropped from over one in three to less than five percent as more hours passed after a 4.7 quake Monday night. John Langbein of the USGS called the public warning a duty to share known hazards. The town population is 34.
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Parkfield
Calif
John Langbein
U.S. Geological Survey
Langbein
Kansas proposes amendment to constitution on November 3 1992
The legislature has adopted a proposition to amend section 1 of article 11 relating to property taxation. Explanatory statement notes text added in italics and removed in strikeout. Secretary of State certifies the proposition for the general election ballot to be printed.
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State of
Kansas
airGraves
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Richard Jackson
Eckan
Lincoln
Tim O'Dea
W. Tecumseh
Ottawa
Farm Bureau Insurance
Cnr
Laura Sutton
Franklin County
Atbice
Laura Sutt
Newcore
Ulti
Arai
Virie
Vercal
Indus Dipreit
Merchanthrendries
Gill Graves
Secretary
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