More signs that the US economy is moving in the right direction: The US Labor Department says new claims for unemployment benefits declined last week, dropping below 400,000 for the first time since July 2008. Other data also shows that businesses ex...
The U.S. economy showed a big gain in jobs last month, but most of them were temporary census workers. President Barack Obama says it nonetheless shows the economy is getting stronger. The nation's unemployment rate dropped two-tenths of one percent...
Experimental prairie farm designed to prove farmers can make a living off native grasses Johanna Sailor | Brookings, South Dakota 12 February 2010 Photo: Courtesy EcoSun Prairie Farm EcoSun Prairie Farm is intended to be a working model of agricultur...
So, theyre scanning your items at the grocery store, and when the last tomato gets bagged youre stunned at the cost. How did you spend so much? Maybe those cherries were 12 bucks a pound. Or maybe you should have paid more attention to what you put i...
Indian students take lessons from their teacher inside a classroom at a school in Calcutta, India, 1Apr 2010 Indian Government Fails to Build Political Consensus on Women's Reservation Bill In India, a landmark law which makes education a fundamental...
Fanny: Hey, Brian, you know, recently I heard that the Canadian dollar is very strong. Brian: It is. It's been amazingly strong in the last few months. Fanny: What happened? I mean, how come? Brian: It went up. The reasons behind why the Canadian dol...
by ljdsoft AZUZ: After the State of the Union, presidents will often travel around the country promoting some of the ideas and programs that they announced during the speech. President Obama hit the road by train. He's pushing for a nationwide, high-...
And since yesterday was the third Monday in January, it was also Martin Luther King Day. For a lot of people, it's a day on, not a day off; a time to give back to their communities. Folks took part in hundreds of service projects across the U.S., fro...
Minority Republicans in Congress say they're prepared to negotiate with President Obama on major issues, such as health care reform and energy legislation. The president will meet with House of Representatives Republicans at their issues conference i...
U.S. President Barack Obama is shifting his economic focus to the middle class. His State of the Union address Wednesday will detail a series of initiatives to help middle-income families. President Obama spent his first year in office trying to prev...
