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It’s D-day for state budgets

By doris | Published: July 1, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Despite all the heated rhetoric and the gloomy economic forecasts, most states will start the new fiscal year Friday with budgets in place. But it looks likely that at least three states — Minnesota, Iowa and Massachusetts — could miss the deadline. Lawmakers and governors in several [...]

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Government job cuts hurt cities

By doris | Published: June 27, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Metro economies struggling the most to recover from the Great Recession typically lost government jobs, a new Brookings Institution report found. Fourteen of the 20 metro areas that have performed the worst since the start of the nation’s economic troubles lost government jobs, according to the report, [...]

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Unemployment Benefits Cut in South Carolina

By doris | Published: June 24, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley signed into law this week legislation reducing the total number of weeks jobless workers eligible for regular unemployment benefits could receive said benefits. The customary number, one used until recently across the United States, was 26 weeks. Under the newly passed legislation, according to The State, [...]

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Minnesota prepares for shutdown

By doris | Published: June 14, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Time is running out for Minnesota’s parks, highway rest stops and public universities, not to mention 36,000 state employees. If Gov. Mark Dayton and lawmakers don’t agree on a budget by June 30, the state government is expected to shut down. The state moved one step closer [...]

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To stem illegal immigration, cut labor demand in U.S.

By doris | Published: May 19, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — News that Mexican authorities found 513 would-be illegal immigrants packed tightly into trucks, with the United States as their destination, should shock Americans into action. They were from Mexico, Japan, China, India and Nepal, and authorities said each had paid $7,000 to gangsters to be smuggled in. Coming only [...]

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White House names first male social secretary

By doris | Published: February 25, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — After two female social secretaries, the White House has hired a man for the job — the first one ever. Jeremy Bernard, currently senior adviser to the U.S. ambassador to France, will trade Paris for Washington and take on the high-profile assignment, the White House announced Friday. That means [...]

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Is Ohio Senate Bill 5 Union Busting?

By doris | Published: February 20, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com COMMENTARY | The debate over Ohio Senate Bill 5 is quickly evolving to an emotional and partisan issue. Public employee unions are lined up on one side of the issue and fiscal conservatives holding court on the other. Increasingly strong partisan rhetoric personal attacks are appearing on union websites. The Ohio [...]

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Obama tries to woo business, slams ‘burdensome’ tax

By doris | Published: February 8, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama stepped up efforts to woo the U.S. business community Monday, seeking its help to tackle “burdensome” corporate taxes in a speech to a business group that has long been a fierce critic. Obama, on a drive to win over business and independent voters before the 2012 [...]

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January jobs report disappoints

By doris | Published: February 4, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Winter weather kept job seekers home and offices closed in January, getting the year off to a disappointing start, while the unemployment rate took a surprising tumble. The economy added just 36,000 jobs in January, falling far short of expectations. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate unexpectedly sunk to [...]

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Clinton addresses presidential aspirations

By doris | Published: November 7, 2010

Full Story at  msnbc.com CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has again slapped down speculation that she harbors ambitions for another presidential run. In New Zealand on Friday, Clinton told a pair of television interviewers that she won’t run for president even in the aftermath of this week’s congressional midterms that [...]

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Democrats talk outsourcing to try and save their own jobs

By doris | Published: October 31, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com You may not know much about tax law, but if you’ve been watching Democratic campaign ads almost anywhere in the country you do know one thing by now: American corporations get tax breaks for shipping jobs to China. If not China, at least some place “overseas.” “He voted for all the [...]

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Obama administration lifts deep-water drilling moratorium

By doris | Published: October 15, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — The Obama administration is lifting the moratorium on deep-water oil drilling — put in place after the Gulf oil spill disaster — for operators who comply with tough new rules and regulations, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Tuesday. “There will always be risks associated with deep-water drilling,” Salazar [...]

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