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Mayor Bloomberg's approval rating has fallen to its lowest point in the last 4-1/2 years - just one of the elected officials to feel the wrath of New York voters. Voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday, support Bloomberg's plan to balance the budget by freezing city workers' wages, but are mixed on his push to trim city services instead of raising taxes. Just 43% of voters would raise taxes to balance the budget, down 10 points from a year ago. About 45% would cut services, up 6 points from a year earlier. While 63% of voters would...

President Obama's job approval rating has fallen to 47 percent in the latest Gallup poll, the lowest ever recorded for any president at this point in his term. President Obama's job approval rating has fallen to 47 percent in the latest Gallup poll, the lowest ever recorded for any president at this point in his term. The new low comes as Obama enters the home stretch in his push to enact his signature initiative, an overhaul of the nation's health care system, and escalates America's involvement in the Afghanistan war. Below are comparable ratings for other presidents since Gallup began...

New Poll Shows Support for Legal Abortion Drops to Lowest Level in 15 Years Washington, DC -- A new poll conducted by Pew Research finds the support for legal abortions has dropped to its lowest level in 15 years. The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted March 31-April 21 among 1,521 adults, finds President Barack Obama could be sparking a shift to the pro-life side of the abortion debate. The Pew poll found 46 percent of Americans say abortion should be legal in most cases (28%) or all cases (18%) and...

Oil hit $86.05 earlier this morning.It's popped back uiup a it since then. But folks, the reason I bring it up, is that the lowest it's been in a *full* year. >8oD

World's Lowest Teen Pregnancy Rate: How Do the Dutch Do It? Teenage pregnancy is a stubborn problem in many countries, both developed and developing. The Netherlands is not one of these, however. This small country boasts of the lowest teenage pregnancy and abortion rates in the world -- lower even than those in Sweden, another success story.[13] Rik H. W. Van Lunsen[14] of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, shared his explanation for this stellar record in the final presentation of the first session on contraception. Counseling is the key. This leitmotif echoed throughout Dr. Van Lunsen's presentation: education, not...

WASHINGTON — Sales of previously owned homes plunged in July to the lowest level in 2 1/2 years and the inventory of unsold homes climbed to a new record high, fresh signs that the housing market has lost steam. The National Association of Realtors reported today that sales of existing homes and condominiums dropped by 4.1 percent in July from June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 6.33 million. That was the lowest level since January 2004. The latest snapshot of housing activity was weaker than analysts anticipated. Economists were forecasting the pace of sales to fall to 6.55...

California's home ownership rate is the second lowest in the nation, a trend that can only be reversed by easing up on land-use regulations and passing bonds for roads and other infrastructure, an industry group said Wednesday. The home ownership rate is 70 percent nationwide but only 57 percent in California and the Bay Area, according to a report released by the California Building Industry Association, which represents the home building industry. The report ranked California 49th nationwide in terms of home ownership. Only New York, with a home ownership rate of 55 percent, is lower. "There was a time...