In the Belair-Edison neighborhood of Baltimore, more than half of the foreclosures on homes have been owned by women, says the Reinvestment Fund, a non-profit community development organization. Subprime mortgages, which are fueling the current foreclosure rate, have gone mostly to women.

Single women, many with children, are one of the fastest-growing homeowner groups in recent years, and women accounted for 40 percent of home buyers in Baltimore in 2006. Nearly half of these mortgages were subprime. The Consumer Federation of America found that women were 32 percent more likely than men to receive subprime loans. While these loans make up only 13 percent of existing home loans, they make up 55 percent of foreclosures, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

The Reinvestment Fund is still working hard at helping out low-income families in Baltimore find funding for housing and small businesses. Interested in finding out what you can do to help invest in these communities? Click here to take action:

According to The New York Times morning shows are for the Miss’s saying “the fourth hour of “Today” feels less like an extension of the three-hour show than a cozy Tupperware party that never ends.”Filled with fashion reports, homemaker tips, and weight loss 101’s, early day programming has become geared toward women and rarely toward anything less than frivolous. Is it such a bad thing? I mean the common viewer of such shows is female and as a gal I can say that I am interested in makeup tips and style reports. However are these shows perpetuating the stereo-type that women have only lofty interests at heart by just reporting on handbags and halter tops and not healthcare reform and hostage situations? And according to viewers, women are bored with the rotation of boring topics.I think the gals at Jezebel best summed it up when saying What do women really want out of morning television, anyway, if not handbags, diet tips and Whoopi Goldberg? News and weather?

By Giulia Rozzi

The good peeps at Jezebel have pointed their cyber fingers at gossip bloggers who type without thinking. The culprits include Drunken Stepfather, What Would Tyler Durden Do, and a gaggle of other rude writers who remind us that any douchebag with half a brain can buy a URL and spread the good garbagey word.

I wonder what their mom’s think of these boy’s blogs?