Sales to their highest lel since before the financial crisis. The National Association of realtors says sales rose 3. 2 in june helped by steady job growth and an improving economy. That report helped send shares of Home Builders higher even as the Broader Market fell today. And while it may seem like the housing recovery is firing on all cylinders, diana tells us there is something not quite right. Reporter the number for the Spring Market are in and strong. Home sale rose more than 3 for may and are now up nearly 10 for the year. Thats the highest monthly pace in over three years but the sales came at a high price. The median existing home price hit 236,400. The highest ever. Thats due to tight supply barely up at all from a year ago. At some point, there will be a choking point with prices rising and we are facing a rising interest rate. That hurts availability. So we may see buyers being chopped off. Not because of the lack of desire to buy a home but the price increase is preventi
Sales to their highest lel since before the financial crisis. The National Association of realtors says sales rose 3. 2 in june helped by steady job growth and an improving economy. That report helped send shares of Home Builders higher even as the Broader Market fell today. And while it may seem like the housing recovery is firing on all cylinders, diana tells us there is something not quite right. Reporter the number for the Spring Market are in and strong. Home sale rose more than 3 for may and are now up nearly 10 for the year. Thats the highest monthly pace in over three years but the sales came at a high price. The median existing home price hit 236,400. The highest ever. Thats due to tight supply barely up at all from a year ago. At some point, there will be a choking point with prices rising and we are facing a rising interest rate. That hurts availability. So we may see buyers being chopped off. Not because of the lack of desire to buy a home but the price increase is preventi
Should receive one, were interested in hearing what you would do with it. Would you save, would you spend it, invest it, do other . Let us known our first hour. What would you do with a tax cut . Weve divided the lines differently. If you make under 50,000, call us, 2027488000. If you make between 50,000 and 100,000, 2027488001. And if you make over 100,000, 2027488002. You can also reach us at twitter and give us your thoughts, cspanwj. Several people posting on facebook this morning, facebook. Com cspan. Washington post features a photo with President Trump and members of the Senate Finance Committee Meeting at the white house yesterday in his effort to try to sell members of the committee, particularly democrats, on the republican plan for tax reform. During that time with the committee, the president laid out specifics of what he hopes to see and how it might benefit americans. Heres the president from yesterday. President trump we are doubling the amount of income that is taxed at
Of any local pta comes to mcc pta so the revenues are depending upon the number of people. What is this money spent on. Typically in a given year, we do well do programming, well do advocacy events, we have a performing Arts Festival coming up this saturday in rockville. Well do cultural art support and programming and a lot of our programming depends on what our membership is interested in what is the biggest challenge right now 40,000 . What are you looking at our biggest challenge we dont know how much money we have to start our year and developing the programming and events that we want to produce for our members and kids in the teachers and the community and the mcps this year i know there hasnt been a suspect named but its believed its somebody inside of the mccpta, which would be a parent or teacher . Was misappropriating the fund had access to the accounts or the ability to access the checks on the accounts. That would tend to be somebody got to be involved in our organization
Brian jo ann jenkins, ceo of aarp, why did you take that job . Jo ann it was unexpected. I have spent over 25 years in Public Service in a number of Government Agencies and i had the opportunity to come over and be the head of the Aarp Foundation. And i spent two years there really trying to institute and constitute the foundation to have it solely focused on serving the needs of the low income of 50 plus across the organization and as a result of the success that we had and the foundation, the ceo asked me if i would come over to their side and help develop a strategy for 2020 to make sure aarp was relevant to its members in the 21st century. As part of that transition and building strategy, the opportunity and opening came to be the ceo of aarp. While not planned, it was a wonderful transition for me to be able to move from being an initially a board member for the forprofit and are running the company. Im the only leader who has worked at all three organizations. Brian some of the d