US PRESIDENT Barack Obama has unveiled a plan to spend billion building roads, railways and airport runways next year in an effort to show he is tackling the US’s chronic unemployment problem ahead of the November mid-term elections.
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Never before have so many governorships been up for grabs — and with so much at stake.
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NORRISTOWN — U.S. Congressman Jim Gerlach, R-6th Dist., said during a Times Herald TV/Online interview on Tuesday afternoon that the key issue in his November election campaign was jobs.
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While the election result has hung in the balance for more than two weeks, the Reserve Bank board will make a decision in a morning that will have more of an… Read the rest
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Economists are satisfied with the Federal Reserve’s current interest rate policy, but they’re divided over how the central bank should proceed the next 12 months, a survey finds.
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Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has mastered the art of speaking nonsense while looking intelligent. He did this when he spoke on the hot-button issue of foreigners flooding Singapore during his National Day… Read the rest
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It’s a pervasive and grubby bonus culture: an expectation by those controlling the game that they be paid twice for doing their job once. Such greed has not been good.
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Sen. Scott Brown should take a page from Sarah Palin’s playbook and “reload.”
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What’s Your Reaction? AFTER months of debate, Senate Democrats this summer broke a Republican filibuster against a bill to extend unemployment benefits.
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The campaigns of Republican Nikki Haley and Democrat Vincent Sheheen are well aware of the groups of voters they must attract and carefully are executing plans to entice them.
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Low turnout expected After enduring a summer of negative advertising on TV and in their mailboxes, voters who can still stomach the people who want to run local, state and national governments make their choices known on Tuesday.
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The Obama administration has told the United Nations that America’s human rights record is less than perfect but stressed the US political system has built-in… Read the rest
by Tony the Misfit
THE ECONOMY has become the dominant topic as Australians prepare to vote in a federal election on Saturday.
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Democrat Denny Heck may have been the top individual vote getter in the primary race for the 3rd Congressional District, but Republicans showed a collective strength in turnout.
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Summoned back from summer break, the House on Tuesday pushed through an emergency billion jobs bill to protect 300,000 teachers, police and others from election-year layoffs.
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President Obama approved a final spurt of spending Tuesday to shore up the sluggish recovery, signing into law a billion plan to save the jobs of thousands of teachers and other government workers. The measure brings… Read the rest
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Michigan could get 0 million dollars if bill is approved.
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In the 2008 race for president, a vote Thursday could make the state of Michigan a very important player. A woman is heading back to New Orleans after living in Michigan.
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Mississippi’s unemployment rate dropped slightly last month – from 11.4 percent to 11 percent – but it still remains among the highest in the nation. Mississippi ranks sixth.
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A House vote Thursday is expected to send President Barack Obama a long-sought measure to resume unemployment payments to millions of people whose benefits have lapsed.
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