Florida – Much Worse Problems Than the Oil Spill
Doug Hornig, Senior Editor, Casey Research Media coverage of the oil spill’s effect on the Gulf focusing on tourist income lost by the waterfront towns –…
Employment
Youth Unemployment Hits Record High
Patrick Allen CNBC Global youth unemployment has hit a record high following the financial crisis and is likely to get worse later this year, the…
U.S. To Train 3,000 Offshore IT Workers
Federally-backed program aims to help outsourcers in South Asia become more fluent in areas like Java programming—and the English language. Paul McDougall InformationWeek Despite President…
Globalists Race To Enforce Criminal Carbon Tax
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet $100 Billion A Year Levy Is About Bankrolling Global Government And Lining The Pockets Of Con Artist Oil Men Soros,…
An Avoidable Depression
Mike Whitney Counterpunch The economy has gone from bad to worse. On Friday the Commerce Department reported that GDP had slipped from 3.7% to 2.4%…
Stocks Slip on Unemployment Numbers
Elizabeth Stanton Bloomberg U.S. stock-index futures slipped, signaling the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index may retreat from an almost three-month high, as an unexpected increase…
Senate Cuts Food Stamps; Leaves Oil and Gas Subsidies Intact
Jean Stevens Change.org America’s poor rarely catch a break these days. The Senate is expected to vote today for a bill that will cut food…
Defining Prosperity Down
Paul Krugman New York Times I’m starting to have a sick feeling about prospects for American workers — but not, or not entirely, for the…
Seven Reasons NOT to Send Your Kids to College
James Altucher Daily Finance Imagine a retirement where you could have an extra $1 million to $3 million in the bank with basically no effort….
NAFTA Has Increased Unemployment in the United States
Mark Vorpahl Global Research On July 7, 2010, President Obama made the following remarks: We’re also reforming our own restrictions on exports, consistent with our…
Wake Up: Homelessness is Not a Crime (VIDEO)
Activist Post We were contacted today by a man named Rod Adams whose personal story could be nearly anyone’s. Rod is part of America’s disappearing middle class….
Ann Curry Focuses On ‘Hidden America’: The Impoverished (PHOTOS)
Huffington Post This Sunday on NBC, Ann Curry will anchor a special report on impoverished Americans in Southeast Ohio. “America Now: Friends & Neighbors” was…
Disappearing Middle Class: Bilingual Ph.D. Accepts Rent Money From Church
Laura Bassett Huffington Post Until 18 months ago, Maria Ortiz says she never had to search for a job in her life. As a highly…
Will the jobs ever return?
Activist Post I’m sure everyone within an eyeshot of this article knows at least one person with a master’s degree who has been out of…