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Rangel gives up rent controlled office |
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Written by Stumo
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Tuesday, 15 July 2008 |
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Rangel was embarassed by disclosures that he has four rent-controlled apartments in New York City - Harlem to be exact. Most people are lucky... very, very, very, lucky... to get one. If you have one, it is your primary residence. Rangel used one as a campaign office.
He just gave up his rent-stabilized campaign office.
There is a new budding story of Rangel soliciting donations from corporations with business before his committee. Donations for a project in New York State which bears his name. The Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at the City College of New York, for which Rangel achieved earmark funding.
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Today, the Labor Department reported the economy lost 84,000 payroll jobs in August, after losing 60,000 jobs in July. This was much worse than was expected, as the full weight of banking crisis, rising oil prices and imports from China drive up unemployment.
Unemployment rose to 6.1 percent from 5.7 percent in July. Factoring in discouraged workers, unemployment is closer to 7.7 percent.
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