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Saturday, July 31, 2010 9:40 GMT

Stories by Adrianne Appel

Adrianne Appel has written for IPS since 2006. From 1992-1995, she reported from Washington, DC on U.S. domestic politics, including health, environment and science policy. In 1996, she moved her news reporting to Boston, Massachusetts, and specialises in health and environmental reporting, and investigative projects involving U.S. corporate malfeaseance. She has also written numerous stories for IPS on the death penalty abolition movement in the U.S.

Wealthy Reap Rewards While Those Who Work Lose
by Adrianne Appel
Times are tough for workers in the U.S. where a recession has a stranglehold on much of the economy, but life is perfectly rosy for those at the top.

Six Million U.S. Homeowners Looking into the Abyss
by Adrianne Appel
A crisis of foreclosures is twisting through neighbourhood after neighbourhood here, separating thousands of U.S. families from their homes each day and further unraveling the social fabric of low-income communities.

U.S. Lawns Getting an Eco-Makeover
by Adrianne Appel* - IPS/IFEJ
A radical, underground movement is growing in the suburbs of the United States.

U.S.
Secret Bailouts for Giant Failing Banks of the Future?
by Adrianne Appel
Big banks will not be forced to downsize and the public will be the last to know when they fail, a controversial bill unveiled by U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Congressman Barney Frank proposes.

ENVIRONMENT-US
Greatest of Lakes Hit by Climate Change
by Adrianne Appel* - IPS/IFEJ
The weather was right for swimming this summer along the shores of Lake Michigan, but on many days, the only living things seen on the beach were gulls, picking away at zebra mussels ensnared in a thick, green slime that covered every rock, pebble and grain of sand for miles.

FINANCE
IMF Loan Policies Worsening Crisis, NGOs Say
by Adrianne Appel
While world leaders banter about International Monetary Fund and World Bank business in Istanbul, NGOs critical of the way the Bretton Woods institutions operate are not letting up pressure.

SCIENCE
Icelandic Banks Finally Get Some Good News
by Adrianne Appel
Economics Nobel laureate Paul Krugman helped unveil a new, lifesaving invention at the 2009 Ig Nobel awards ceremony last week - a pink brassiere that doubles as a pair of filtering gas masks.

HEALTH-US
State's 'Model' Reforms May Be Anything But
by Adrianne Appel
As all factions of the U.S. Congress continue a bruising debate about how to change the U.S. health system, one state, Massachusetts, seems to point the way clear, but activists say the Massachusetts plan is already troubled and doomed by skyrocketing costs.

ECONOMY-US
Activists Demand Real Change as Foreclosures Mount
by Adrianne Appel
Hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. continue to lose their homes each month in an ongoing crisis that is wreaking chaos on communities, advocates say.

U.S.
Sky's the Limit for Bank Fees
by Adrianne Appel
Banks bailed out with U.S. taxpayer money, like Wells Fargo and U.S. Bancorp, are raking in money by charging 150 percent interest and more on short-term, payday loans to people with no savings, consumer advocates say.

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