Help The Middle ClassNews and Information For The Heart Of America
After A Layoff, Carefully Pick What To Cash Out First
Unless you got fired for driving your boss’s car into a lake, there’s nothing funny about losing your job. And unfortunately, 3.6 million people — more than the population of Chicago — have lost their jobs since the recession began in December 2007.
If you’re suddenly unemployed, you have a number of unpleasant choices to make. [...]
8 Foods to Keep Your Brain Young and Healthy
Story Highlights:
• Blueberries, Fish, nuts & seeds are a few of the foods that can keep you sharp
• Senility, Alzheimer’s, and age-related memory loss: these conditions of mental decline that come with aging can be delayed or even prevented.
Besides engaging in daily activities that work out your brain, a regular and balanced diet rich with [...]
Education chief favors longer school year – CNN.com
• Story Highlights
• Education secretary: U.S. students at “competitive disadvantage” with other countries
• Longer school year among options considered to boost student performance
• “We can’t afford to get worse now,” Secretary Arne Duncan says
• Stimulus money will help schools keep teachers in jobs, Duncan says
Those lazy days of summer may become a thing of the [...]
News Analysis: Obama’s Budget: Taxing For Fairness Or Class Warfare?
“Obama wants to help people afford college,” Williams said. “His focus is on things that have long-term investment potential and have major, major social benefits.”
Similarly, on healthcare, Obama has decided to put cost control above expanding coverage — a goal that would have the effect of easing healthcare expenses for everyone, but especially for the [...]
The President’s Weekly Address 2/28 & Senator Burr’s Republican Response
President Obama’s Weekly Address and the Republican response
News Analysis – ‘Great Society’ Plan for the Middle Class – NYTimes.com
Opponents of President Obama’s proposal for a sweeping new government activism in the economy call it a return to a traditional tax-and-spend philosophy, a step back to the era of Lyndon B. Johnson.
It may also be a postmodern, post-Clinton form of liberalism.
Unlike the sweeping social programs of the 1960s, the Obama plan, with its talk [...]
Struggling States Look to Unorthodox Taxes
In his 11 years in the Washington Legislature, Representative Mark Miloscia says he has supported all manner of methods to fill the state’s coffers, from increasing fees on property owners to help the homeless to taxes on alcohol and cigarettes, most of which, he said, passed “without a peep.”
And so it was last month that [...]
OPINION: OBAMA’S PHONY PULLOUT
Commentary by Ralph Peters for the New York Post
YESTERDAY, President Obama went to Camp Lejeune. He spoke in front of US Marines, but his real audience was his left-wing campaign supporters.
And his carefully worded speech – its parsing of language worthy of Bill Clinton – may go down in history as his “Mission Accomplished” moment. [...]
Mexican Drug War Takes Its Toll On U.S. Families
Jose Molinar knew something wasn’t right. He hadn’t heard from his wife for a few hours, which was not sitting well with him.
Marisella Molinar worked as a secretary for a top prosecutor in Juarez, Mexico, Jesus Huerta Yedra. She was employed in the office for more than 10 years and though she lived across the [...]
Cities And States Fight Over Stimulus Funds
As the first money from the federal economic-stimulus package begins to flow, a showdown between Washington-state lawmakers and Seattle officials over road projects could augur a wave of battles around the country over how stimulus dollars are spent.
The fight started earlier this week, when Washington legislators unveiled a plan for spending the state government’s $341 [...]
