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 Mortgage lending rising again as banks ease policies

June 23, 2013 

Mortgage lending rising again as banks ease policies

Real estate agent Mickey Knickerbocker was as surprised as anybody when her client closed on a $905,000 Manhattan Beach town house using "piggyback" financing: a two-mortgage deal designed to minimize the down payment.

 California unemployment rate falls to 8.6%

June 23, 2013 

California unemployment rate falls to 8.6%

California's unemployment rate fell below 9 percent for the first time in nearly five years last month, signaling the economic recovery is finally gaining traction.

 New scoring system boosts success of JobsOhio program

June 23, 2013 

New scoring system boosts success of JobsOhio program

Nearly one-quarter of the 76,000 job commitments JobsOhio says it helped secure for Ohio in 2012 would not have counted under the scoring system the non-profit used the previous year, a Dayton Daily News analysis has found.