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AP STIMULUS WATCH: Stimulus Jobs Overstated In Report
The White House is promising that new figures being released Friday will be a more accurate showing of progress in President Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan. It aggressively defended an earlier, faulty count that overstated by thousands the jobs created or saved so far.
Ed DeSeve, serving as Obama’s stimulus overseer, said the administration has been [...]
Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont): The Middle Class Today Is In Desperate Shape (VIDEO)
Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont) was on fire in his weekly YouTube video, “Senator Sanders Unfiltered.”
“The reality is that the middle class today in this country is in desperate shape and the gap between the very very wealthy and everyone else is going to grow wider,” he begins. Sanders goes on to detail why he gets [...]
6 Easy Steps To Retiring With $1 Million
Let’s face it; we all don’t make millions of dollars a year, and the odds are that most of us won’t receive a large windfall inheritance either. However, that doesn’t mean that we can’t build sizeable wealth – it’ll just take some time. If you’re young, time is on your side and retiring a millionaire [...]
U. S. Cities Least Touched By The Recession – A Business Week Report
America’s strongest economies have one thing in common — home prices that never got too hot or too cold.
Home prices in metros such as San Antonio, Oklahoma City, Pittsburgh, Rochester, Little Rock, Ark., and Baton Rouge, La., remained steady through boom and bust. Although no metropolitan area entirely avoided the economic downturn, the most resilient [...]
AMERICAN TEENAGERS IN CRISIS: Teen Gang Raped At School, Witnesses Do Nothing
A 15-year-old girl who went to her homecoming dance was repeatedly gang raped and beaten at Richmond High School for at least two hours while more than a dozen witnesses saw the assault but failed to call police, authorities said today.
The attack occurred Saturday around 9:30 p.m. after the girl had left the dance and [...]
POLITICO/OPINION: What if Bush Had Done That? Giving Obama The Pass
A four-hour stop in New Orleans, on his way to a $3 million fundraiser.
Snubbing the Dalai Lama.
Signing off on a secret deal with drug makers.
Freezing out a TV network.
Doing more fundraisers than the last president. More golf, too.
President Barack Obama has done all of those things — and more.
What’s remarkable is what hasn’t happened. These [...]
7 Natural Ways to Avoid the Flu
With cold and flu season around the corner and H1N1 virus still making appearances, it is more important than ever to bolster your immune system this fall and winter. Here are some natural, simple solutions that will help protect you!
1. Chestnuts bolster immunity
In both Asia and the Mediterranean region, chestnuts have been popular for centuries. [...]
Foreclosures Up 5 Percent. Obama Mortgage Relief Not Reaching Enough Families
The number of households caught up in the foreclosure crisis rose more than 5 percent from summer to fall as a federal effort to assist struggling borrowers was overwhelmed by a flood of defaults among people who lost their jobs.
The foreclosure crisis affected nearly 938,000 properties in the July-September quarter, compared with about 890,000 in [...]
Still On The Job, But At Half The Pay
The dark blue captain’s hat, with its golden oak-leaf clusters, sits atop a bookcase in Bryan Lawlor’s home, out of reach of the children. The uniform their father wears still displays the four stripes of a commercial airline captain, but the hat stays home. The rules forbid that extra display of authority, now that Mr. [...]
Public Option Is Next Big Hurdle in Health Debate
As the White House and Congressional leaders turned in earnest on Wednesday to working out big differences in the five health care bills, perhaps no issue loomed as a greater obstacle than whether to establish a government-run competitor to the insurance industry.
One day after the Senate Finance Committee approved a measure without a “public option,” [...]
