President Biden and his economic team, concerned that elevated mortgage rates and housing costs are hurting Americans and hindering his re-election bid, are searching for new ways to make housing more available and affordable. Mr. Biden’s forthcoming budget request will call on Congress to pass a raft of initiatives to build more affordable housing and…
For the two days after a gunman killed 18 people and injured 13 in Lewiston, Patrick Hynes and other residents in Southern Maine sat in their own homes, under a shelter-in-place order, facing their grief, their rage, in isolation. Now, finally, they have started to share those emotions together. “We’re social animals, whether we like…
Today, the Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether President Biden can cancel student debt. The justices’ eventual ruling will affect tens of millions of low- and middle-income Americans who could qualify for up to $20,000 in student debt forgiveness. The case itself, however, revolves more around technical legal arguments than around policy debates about…
To hear the voices of older Americans who confront high drug costs month in and month out is to hear fear and worry, anger and stress. Many say they are figuring out how to get by, skipping vacations and other niceties for which they saved. For Kim Armbruster, 65, who recently retired after a 40-year…
The former mayor of Stonecrest, Ga., a small city outside Atlanta, was sentenced on Wednesday to four years and nine months in prison for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal money intended to help his city cope with the pandemic, the authorities said. The former mayor, Jason Lary, who pleaded guilty in United…