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...latest signpost in the U.S. job market's descent arrived on Friday, when the Department of Labor announced that the non-farm payrolls shed an unexpectedly high 240,000 jobs in October, the tenth straight monthly decline, and yet another sign that the recession's grip is tightening. Overall, the unemployment rate surged to 6.5%, higher than most economists had been expecting. The report added to that gloom with a downward revision of September job losses to 284,000, the biggest monthly loss since...
...proposal was detailed on Friday at the association's national conference in Orlando, Fla. The group asked the 20,000 members in attendance to sign letters to Congress showing support for the initiative. It is part of a number of moves they are advocating to help boost housing prices...
...Monday, Kristol said on Fox News that Palin “reminds me a lot of FDR.” Galston, like Kristol, emphasized that in recent years, young adults have been increasingly voting for Democratic candidates, “which has been a bad sign for the other party.” Galston also said he worries that the Obama campaign’s diverse coalition might pose a challenge to his nascent administration. “Even in the eyes of his own coalition some people are afraid that he wouldn’t go far enough while...
...Hampshire's announcement comes as Utah and Massachusetts declared that they, too, plan to enact some of the commission's other proposals, such as universal Pre-K and better teacher pay and training. Still more states are expected to sign on in December. And the largest teacher union in the U.S., the National Education Association, is encouraging its affiliates to support such efforts...
...differences working together without compromising our values or losing our distinctives is essential for progress." Thus Hunter also plays down another potential bone of contention between the new President and Evangelicals - Obama's July 2007 pledge to Planned Parenthood that "the first thing I'd do, as President, is sign the Freedom of Choice Act" - a bill that could wipe out many of the inroads conservatives have made into strict interpretation of Roe v. Wade. "I think [the FCA] is a horrible idea," Hunter says. "But it's just a bill in committee," and it would take time to reach...