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Unemployment Rate is Highest in 26 Years
By Kevin G. Hall The nation's unemployment rate ticked up to 9.8 percent in September, its highest level in 26 years, as employers hastened their pace of layoffs, the government reported Friday in a... ...
Obama's Stimulus Plan: Failing by Its Own Measure
UK: House prices will stay in the doldrums for years, report predicts Britain's housing market will stay in the doldrums until the middle of the next decade, and there is a 30% chance that prices will... ...
Budget Gap Grows to $589 Billion
700 Merill Executives Received Bonuses ft.com — Nearly 700 Merrill Lynch executives had cash bonuses of more than $1 million each for last year, New York's top law enforcement official disclosed. Andrew... ...
Retail sales post big drop in November
U.S. retail sales excluding autos posted their biggest monthly drop in five years in November, as consumers, spooked by a deepening recession, pared spending for a third straight month, a private report... ...
US budget deficit hits record $454.8 billion
Houston Chronicle 10/14/08 The federal budget deficit soared to $454.8 billion in 2008 as a housing collapse and efforts to combat the economic slowdown pushed the tide of government red ink to the highest... ...
Obama, McCain and the coming fiscal disaster
Chicago Tribune by Steve Chapman 07/10/08 Federal budget policy is a dry subject with far too many numbers and charts, which makes it uninviting to most Americans. But the theme of the current budget... ...
Urge your assemblymember to vote Yes for global warming and water conservation bills
The California Assembly is considering two important bills that would help the state fight global warming and conserve precious water resources. AB 493 represents a common-sense, market-based solution... ...
The Army, Despite Its $168 Billion Budget, Is Out of Money
The Iraq war has exposed more than a decade's worth of mistakes and miscalculations that are now seriously undermining the world's mightiest military force. According to Major General Stephen Speakes,... ...
Budget woes force Army bases to cut services
MSNBC 07/06/06 A diversion of dollars to help fight the war in Iraq has helped create a $530 million shortfall for Army posts at home and abroad, leaving some unable to pay utility bills or even cut... ...
Stop the National Forest sell-off: protect these priceless wildlands for all Americans
The Bush administration wants to sell off an astonishing 300,000 acres of our national forest lands across 35 different states -- to pay for its mismanagement of America's finances. We need your immediate... ...