Jul 08 Watch How Will News of the World Scandal Affect Murdoch’s Power, Media Empire? How Will U.K. Tabloid Scandal Impact Murdoch, Media?… Continue watching
Jul 08 Jobs: the Dreary Data, a Desperate Viewer, a Pessimistic Professor By Paul Solman Goodness! U-7, our own measure of under-and unemployment, shot up to 18.6 percent this morning, a rise that gets us back near the number when we first inaugurated the Solman Scale last December. This morning's job numbers: only… Continue reading
Jul 08 Scolding and Scheming: Politics at Its Best President Obama updates reporters on debt talks. White House photo. The president knotted his tie and strode into the White House press briefing room Thursday to announce that he'd just concluded a "very constructive" meeting with members of Congress. Continue reading
Jul 08 Obama Gets His Monthly Report Card On Friday morning, President Obama will speak about the jobless rate, which rose to 9.2 percent. Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images. A jobs report does not an election make, but the Obama economy is in a rut and… Continue reading
Jul 07 Watch Condolence Letter Policy Shift Opens Conversation on Military Suicides The White House announced this week that President Obama will now send condolences to families of troops who kill themselves in combat zones. Jeffrey Brown discusses the policy change and ongoing concerns over military suicides with retired Army Gen. Ronald… Continue watching
Jul 07 Watch News Wrap: EPA Unveils New Power Plant Pollutants Rule In other news Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed a new rule that power plants must install technology to reduce two pollutants -- sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides. Also, a new report found that Medicaid coverage could mean better health… Continue watching
Jul 07 Watch Can Obama, Congress Pull off a ‘Big Deal’ on Deficit Despite Political Perils? President Obama and congressional leaders met Thursday to discuss how to raise the nation's debt limit. Judy Woodruff discusses the meeting, which President Obama called "constructive," and the political pitfalls confronting lawmakers with Naftali Bendavid of The Wall Street Journal… Continue watching
Jul 07 Budget Battle Closes in on Medicare, Medicaid Few details have emerged from the closed-door deficit reduction talks, but members of both parties now admit one thing: Changes could be on the way for Medicare and Medicaid. For the first time this week, President Obama seems… Continue reading
Jul 07 Pelosi: House Democrats Won’t Support Entitlement Cuts in Debt-Limit Deal While Republicans in the House and Senate have been declaring for weeks that they won't support any type of tax increase as part of a debt-limit deal, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi drew her own line in the sand Thursday:… Continue reading
Jul 07 Obama: White House Debt Limit Meeting ‘Constructive,’ But No Deal Yet President Obama speaks Thursday in the Brady Briefing Room following a meeting on the debt ceiling with congressional leaders. Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images President Obama said Thursday that he had a very constructive meeting with congressional leaders about… Continue reading