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The Obama administration has announced it will require home loan servicers to extend the time allowing unemployed homeowners to forbear payment on their loans to 12 months. The extension will apply to homeowners who have Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans and to servicers participating in the Making Home Affordable Program (MHA).

During a June 12, 2011, face-off between party chairs on NBC’s Meet the Press, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus compared the unemployment situation since the start of the past recent recession to what the nation faced during the Great Depression. Priebus invoked the Great Depression twice during the joint interview with Democratic counterpart, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida.

Sometimes people ask me if I miss being in television. The truthful answer is: sometimes. I do not miss worrying about whether my hair and clothes and makeup are just so at the same time that I am trying to think of a smart question. I do sometimes miss the power of the camera ... being able to show people what they do not want to face.