Time to Rise Above Racism and Self-Interest
There are thousands of people in this country like my Uncle Billy, and they will go to the polls on November 4th with ignorance settled deep in their souls.
There are thousands of people in this country like my Uncle Billy, and they will go to the polls on November 4th with ignorance settled deep in their souls.
AP | MIKE GLOVER | Posted 08.09.2008 | Politics
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Friday he would be willing to support limited additional offshore oil...
Grant Cardone | Posted 08.06.2008 | Business
America has become a country of people that waste too much. We have gotten away from exactly what made this country great in the first place -- production!
The Los Angeles Times | Richard Fausset, P.J. Huffstutter and Stephen Braun | Posted 08.05.2008 | Business
ATLANTA -- It is better than nothing. That has been the subdued mantra repeated by working Americans in recent weeks as they spend the Bush administr...
AP | DAVE CARPENTER | Posted 06.07.2008 | Business
CHICAGO — Many Americans allowed themselves to fantasize about large-screen TVs, European vacations and other luxuries when they learned of the ...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.10.2008 | Business
The economic stimulus package will be mailed out according to a Social Security Number schedule, according to this report of when tax rebate checks go...
Patt Morrison | Posted 04.24.2008 | Media
Rather than rolling over to the privatizing of public discourse, the FCC should muster some guts and insist that networks, broadcast and cable, take turns broadcasting presidential debates in real time, commercial-free, to the entire nation.
AP | DUNCAN MANSFIELD | Posted 04.15.2008 | Business
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — For many Americans, those tax rebate checks meant to stimulate the economy will be coming just in time _ for a vacation. The...
USA Today | Erin Kutz | Posted 04.03.2008 | Business
The IRS is taking a cue from aspiring comedians and Barack Obama aficionados this week, making use of YouTube to get its message out. The agency prod...
CNN/Money | Ben Rooney | Posted 04.01.2008 | Business
Tax rebates are the centerpiece of the government's plan to stimulate the economy, but many Americans are planning to put the money in the bank or use...
AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — Don't be alarmed. More than 130 million households will get letters from the Internal Revenue Service beginning next week and the n...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
During a White House news conference Thursday morning, President Bush said the country is not headed into a recession, noting that the government has ...
MarketWatch | Rex Nutting | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
There's a lot of skepticism in the country about how effective the $168 billion fiscal stimulus package will be, but economists who've crunched the nu...
Miranda Marquit | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
The economic stimulus in question focuses a great deal on a short-term fix, rather than a long-term fundamental change. It's reactionary when it should be visionary.
AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — Despite remarkably quick passage, the economic aid plan and its cash rebates may come too late to prevent a recession this year. Fo...
CNN Money | Jeanne Sahadi | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Lawmakers have given their final seal of approval to a $170 billion plan intended to spark the slowing economy. The plan's centerpiece: tax rebates. ...
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR and JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — The Senate passed an economic rescue plan Thursday that would speed $600 to $1,200 in rebates to most taxpayers and $300 checks to ...
New York Times | SHERYL GAY STOLBERG | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Facing an unstable economy and an unfinished war, President Bush used his final State of the Union address Monday night to call for quick passage of h...
Rachel Farris | Posted 11.29.2008 | Home