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The Boston Globe: State’s health coverage still high Massachusetts residents have largely been able to hang on to health insurance, despite the deep and lingering recession and widespread unemployment, according to a study released yesterday by the Urban Institute, a Washington-based think tank.
The Boston Globe: Religious Leaders Unite to Blast Cahill Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim leaders, adorned in the vestments of their respective faiths, stood shoulder to shoulder on the steps of a Roxbury mosque yesterday and strongly condemned state Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill for blasting Governor Deval Patrick’s conciliatory tone at a forum at the mosque last weekend.
The Boston Globe: ‘Yours is a peaceful faith’ Governor Deval Patrick told more than 1,100 Muslims at a Roxbury mosque yesterday that he knew many have encountered discrimination and racial profiling since Sept. 11 and that he would do everything in his power to combat those problems.
FORCV: Dearborn Middle School Leaders Seek Commitments from Treasurer Cahill and Mayor Menino for School’s Academic Turnaround and Renovation ROXBURY -- On Monday April 26 from 7-8:30 pm at the Dearborn Middle School, three hundred students, parents, teachers, and community leaders will meet with Treasurer and Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) Chair Timothy Cahill, MSBA Executive Director Katherine Craven, Mayor Thomas Menino and Superintendent Dr. Carol Johnson.
Boston Herald: Deval Patrick vows support for Muslims In his largest meeting with Boston-area Muslims, Gov. Deval Patrick agreed yesterday to take aim at ensuring their rights and addressing racial profiling. The session came little more than a week after two Bay State Muslims were arrested in a raid following an attempted car bombing in Times Square in New York.
The Washington Post: Massachusetts moving money out of 3 big banks to protest credit card rates Massachusetts officials on Wednesday announced plans to move millions of dollars in state investments out of some of the nation's biggest banks to protest credit card interest rates.
The Boston Globe: State to move funds after banks won’t cap interest State officials said they will begin divesting at least $212 million in taxpayer dollars from a fund that has deposits in Bank of America, Citi, and Wells Fargo because the banks have not agreed to cap the interest rates they charge consumers at 18 percent. National banks based outside of Massachusetts are not required to comply with state’s usury law, which limits interest rates for credit cards and other borrowing to no more than 18 percent. But state Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill said he agreed to move the funds at the request of the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization, a nonprofit that has advocated for financial reform, and after meetings with Bank of America.
The Boston Globe Editorial: In show of faith, banks should limit interest to 18 percent IF BANK of America were a state bank chartered in Massachusetts, the most it could charge on credit-card interest is 18 percent. That’s not chicken feed, but it is much less than the knee-breaker’s rates it and other nationally chartered banks get away with. Now the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization is trying to get the bank to honor the state interest cap
Massachusetts Moves Bank of America Funds Over Rates April 14 (Bloomberg) -- Massachusetts will withdraw more than $231 million of state funds from a Bank of America Corp. account because the lender refuses to cap credit-card interest rates at 18 percent, State Treasurer Timothy Cahill said.