WASHINGTON — Despite remarkably quick passage, the economic aid plan and its cash rebates may come too late to prevent a recession this year. Fo...
AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate John McCain skipped a difficult Senate vote Wednesday on whether to make 20 million seniors and 2...
AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The fate of $600-$1,200 rebate checks for more than 100 million Americans is in limbo after Senate Republicans blocked a bid by Dem...
New York | James Cramer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Everybody likes "free" money. So it's no wonder that President Bush's plan to give up to $1,200 per family to taxpayers to get the economy moving agai...
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — Retirees living off Social Security are frustrated that they won't get tax rebate checks through a bipartisan economic stimulus pac...
Reuters | Emily Kaiser | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
There is no quick cure for what ails the U.S. and global economies, but if the Federal Reserve's emergency interest rate cut on Tuesday can instill so...
AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business