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America’s Best-Paying Blue-Collar Jobs
It’s a hard time for almost everyone right now, but it’s especially hard for workers who don’t have a college education. In 2008 the unemployment rate was 9% for people with less than a high school diploma, 5.7% for high school graduates, 2.8% for college graduates and 2% for people with doctorates. Those numbers are [...]
THE STORY THE WHITE HOUSE DOESN’T WANT YOU TO SEE: Hospitals Oppose Obama’s Medicare, Medicaid Cuts
President Barack Obama said Saturday he wants to help pay for his health care overhaul by slowing Medicare and Medicaid spending, but hospitals, medical technicians and others are resisting.
The high-stakes struggle over medical care is heating up as Obama declares the status quo unacceptable.
The president suggests trimming federal payments to hospitals by about $200 billion [...]
Some projects Raise Question: Where’s the Stimulus?
As President Obama moves to accelerate the flow of federal funds intended to rev up the economy and energy efficiency, public officials are voicing concerns about the merit of some plans.
It is a six-mile stretch of guardrail near a manufactured lake in a desolate patch of the Oklahoma Panhandle. There’s little reason for anyone to [...]
North Korea Warns Of Nuclear War
South Korea’s president ordered his top security officials Sunday to deal “resolutely and squarely” with new North Korean warnings of a nuclear war on the eve of his U.S. visit. In Washington, Vice President Joe Biden said “God only knows” what North Korea wants from the latest showdown.
President Lee Myung-bak travels to Washington on Monday [...]
NEWS ALERT: Israel’s Netanyahu Calls For Disarmed Palestinian State
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on Sunday called for creation of a limited Palestinian state for the first time, saying it would have to be disarmed.
Netanyahu made the call during a major policy speech about his Mideast peacemaking intentions.
“In any peace agreement, the territory under Palestinian control must be disarmed, with solid security guarantees for Israel,” [...]
MIDDLE CLASS LIFE: Sex And Other Perks After The Children Leave Home
(OPRAH.com) — Jane Shure wasn’t surprised by her grief — the sense of deep loss, the resonating silence in the house — when her youngest daughter left for college; what shocked her was how quickly it dissipated.
When adult kids fly away from home, some empty nesters find they’re having more fun
“At first simply driving past [...]
RECESSION WATCH: Parents Cutting Off Financial ‘Lifelines’ To Young Adults
For the past five years, Ernie DiGiacomo has been able to count on parents to guarantee the $1,500 to $2,500 rents he charges for the 15 apartments he owns in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. When he called renters who had missed payments, he often heard, “My parents will send you a check.”
But in the past six months, [...]
Obama Invokes Jesus More Than Bush
He’s done it while talking about abortion and the Middle East, even the economy. The references serve at once as an affirmation of his faith and a rebuke against a rumor that persists for some to this day.
As president, Barack Obama has mentioned Jesus Christ in a number of high-profile public speeches — something his [...]
RECESSION NEWS: Entrepreneurs Pack Up and Go Home
In February, after 12 years in a downtown La Jolla, Calif., storefront, Brett and Kimberly Buffington packed up their children’s clothing boutique, Eurochild LLC, and moved it into their home.
“Business just stopped on a dime” 18 months ago, Mr. Buffington says, and he and his wife were unable to renegotiate their $7,000-a-month rent.
Working at home [...]
Apple Slashing Prices On iPhone – Jobs No Show At Announcement
Apple Inc. slashed the entry price for an iPhone in half and lowered some laptops by $300 Monday, the company’s first dramatic price cuts since the recession began a year and a half ago.
With co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs absent until his medical leave is over at the end of June, Apple’s biggest unveiling at [...]
