Falling Unemployment and Strong Job Growth Push Stocks Higher!
Wall Street investors and Americans at large are feeling better about the U.S. economy.
The Labor Department reporting that the economy added 243,000 jobs in January, with an additional 60,000 jobs added to the original reports for the final two-months of 2011.
The unemployment rate falls to 8.3%, the lowest level of unemployment since February 2009. One murky aspect of the unemployment data is debate about the validity of the BLS figures... Read More
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Posted 02/03/2012 at 12:03 PM - Permalink | Email
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My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant
Now nearly two decades later, Jose Antonio Vargas is a former reporter for The Washington Post and shared a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings.
Vargas founded Define American, which seeks to change the conversation on immigration reform.
Read more about the man's journey in a country that doesn't recognize him as one of its own.
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| Posted 06/22/2011 at 12:00 AM - Permalink | Email
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Jobs Now
Dobbs and Jobs...and Jobs Now. When's the last time you heard President Obama talk about putting 30 million unemployed Americans back to work? When's the last time you heard this Congress talk about plans to put 30 million unemployed Americans back to work? Where are our priorities, Independent America? We are America, by God, and we need to focus on the nation's middle class and good-paying American jobs.
And that's why right here on this... Read More
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| Posted 08/19/2009 at 7:29 PM - Permalink | Email
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Complain about the new TSA rules
Phone numbers to call to complain about the new TSA rules:
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY:
202-282-8495
ABC News
Phone: 212-456-7777
CBS News
Phone: 212-975-4321
CNN
Phone: 404-827-1500
Fox News Channel
Phone: (212) 301-3000
MSNBC/NBC
Phone: (212) 664-4444
PBS
Phone: 703-739-5000
The Los Angeles Times
Phone: 800-528-4637
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| Posted 11/17/2010 at 9:00 AM - Permalink | Email
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America's Transformation Under Obama
Where are we right now? Let's look back at the past six months: We've talked about how 60 percent of the American electorate now receives more from the federal government than they pay in taxes.
We've talked about how you can "earn" more than $40,000 in New York for doing absolutely nothing. No work, who cares? We'll pay you in food stamps and unemployment and welfare and housing assistance and even tax credits, whether you want a job or not.... Read More
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| Posted 07/30/2009 at 12:00 AM - Permalink | Email
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