... a telecommunications service under Title II. What Wheeler doesn't mention is that the tax ban expires again in October. Unless Congress passes a permanent bill, as some lawmakers want, state governments are likely to start pushing back on this temporary relief bill, especially as landline revenues decline. It's ...
We collect data about how our economy is working -- GDP, the monthly unemployment number, poverty rates -- and then we collect data on how we feel the economy is working. There’s dour news on that front this week: most Americans (72 percent) think the economy is still in a recession ...
... Making Sen$e. Wednesday, we heard from Milton Ezrati, who argues that America can overcome its demographic challenges (an aging workforce and decades of low birth rates): The doomsayers – and there are many – assume, incorrectly, that people will simply stand by passively while demographic trends destroy their prosperity. History shows the ...
... heels with yet another issue in the short term. This election is being fought in a lot of red states, where President Barack Obama, and interventionist government, is unpopular -- places like Kentucky, West Virginia, Arkansas, Alaska and Louisiana. It’s also boxing in people like Kay Hagan in North Carolina ...
... to the rate of inflation and, often, have paid a "premium" of interest above and beyond inflation. At the moment, because of historically low interest rates, that premium is zero, but it is reset every six months. If, in September (or the following March or a year from September, etc ...
Preparations are underway for Tuesday night's presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images. Tune in to the campaign Tuesday, and you might just think you've been transported by time portal to 1992. Yes, that's former President Bill Clinton arguing to the camera about taxes. And Ross Perot is there,...
GOP contenders campaigned Wednesday in Arizona as they prepared for the season's 20th presidential debate. Gwen Ifill reports from Phoenix. Then Judy Woodruff discusses the coming Michigan primary with Micheline Maynard of the public media project Changing Gears and Bill Ballenger of the Inside Michigan Politics newsletter.
Birth-control pills are among the contraceptives that could be offered at no cost to Americans; Creative Commons photo by flickr.com/nateone All U.S. women should have access to free birth control as part of the 2010 health care reform law, the Institute of Medicine recommended Tuesday, along with eight other suggestions for preventive health services. Commissioned...
The long-running debate over the value of China's currency is heating up in Washington. Last week, senators from both parties introduced a bill that would compel the Obama administration to confront China over the undervalued yuan, which many economists believe China keeps artificially low to give them an export advantage. The House Ways and Means...
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