first time homebuyer tax credit
More Bad News on the Jobs Front: Families Unprepared for Unemployment
As lawmakers start to shift their attention to job creation, a Brandeis University study finds that four in 10 families don’t have enough savings or assets on hand to pay for essential expenses during a period of unemployment. The report also notes that the poor economy is hitting minority households particularly hard, erasing their economic [...]
Housing Market Madness? A New Push for a Bigger Homebuyer Tax Credit
Are we really going to go through this again? Immediately after the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development finished putting the final touches on a controversial plan to allow first-time homebuyers to use an $8,000 tax credit as a downpayment on a new home, some in theĀ Senate are proposing nearly doubling the credit [...]
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