• Do better-paid workers equal better business?

    Do better-paid workers equal better business?

    May 14, 2015 11:01 PM EDT

    ... like, oh, it's there. You know, this, it's really there. PAUL SOLMAN: Kristen Sargent among the 233 workers here whose paychecks rose. KRISTEN SARGENT: It's like, on paper. You know, it's there. It went into effect. PAUL SOLMAN: Sargent will earn over a dollar more an ...

  • Banning ‘the box’ to give ex-convicts a better chance at finding a job

    Banning ‘the box’ to give ex-convicts a better chance at finding a job

    Dec 26, 2014 12:35 AM EDT

    ... HARI SREENIVASAN: Now: a move to make it easier for people who have been convicted of a crime to find employment after being released from prison. Several states and municipalities are preventing employers from asking about criminal convictions up front. The so-called ban the box movement would eliminate ...

  • Obama meets with Central American leaders on border crisis while Congress dithers

    Obama meets with Central American leaders on border crisis while Congress dithers

    Jul 25, 2014 01:09 PM EDT

    ... 4 vote. It could be brought to the floor and pass the full House in a party-line vote next week. “We’re going to make August very hot,” Steve Israel, head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, responsible for electing Democrats to the House, told Greg Sargent. Of course ...

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    SCOTUS: Chemical weapons treaty cannot be invoked in assault case

    Jun 02, 2014 06:20 PM EDT

    ... an amateur attempt by a jilted wife to injure her husband's lover," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court. Roberts contrasted John Singer Sargent's massive painting, "Gassed," with its depictions of men who have been blinded by mustard gas, with Bond's actions. "There are no life ...

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    Thousands of Americans lace up their running shoes before sitting at the dinner table this Thanksgiving

    Nov 28, 2013 07:15 PM EDT

    Thanksgiving day Buffalo New York Turkey Trot in 18 degree snow! Let's do this! ?????? pic.twitter.com/wHJhDIbjIG— carly sargent (@cali_girl907) November 28, 2013 On Thursday, cities across the country will hold their annual Thanksgiving Day races, often known as "Turkey Trots." Running in the USA, an organization ...

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    Detroit Today, Washington Tomorrow

    Aug 04, 2013 11:15 AM EDT

    ... infrastructure, education, research or the environment nor pro-growth tax reform. The fiscal gap tells us whether current policy is sustainable, what's needed to make current policy sustainable, and the tradeoff between adjusting policy now or later. Given the $222 trillion fiscal gap, which is measured based on the ...

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    Support for Gay Marriage Grows as Supreme Court Cases Near

    Mar 19, 2013 01:26 PM EDT

    ... be legal for gay couples to get married. The survey showed 36 percent of respondents opposed making same-sex marriages legal. The Post's Greg Sargent breaks down in detail the dramatic splits on the issue among certain demographic groups: Voters ages 18-29 support legalizing gay marriage, 81 percent ...

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    Tuskegee Airmen Continue to Share Bonds of Brotherhood

    Jun 11, 2012 07:50 PM EDT

    EmbedVideo(2826, 482, 304); Floyd Collins is a Tuskegee Airman. But unlike the 450 Tuskegee Airmen who served overseas as the first black pilots in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, the 87-year-old Collins did not see combat by the time he was commissioned in 1946. "The war was over with," Collins said....

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    Santorum: Romney 'Worst Republican' to Face Obama; Picks Fight With Press

    Mar 26, 2012 01:21 PM EDT

    Rick Santorum poses for a photo with a supporter in Fond du Lac, Wis. Photo by Mark Hirsch/Getty Images. As the delegate math got even tougher for Rick Santorum, the GOP presidential contender appeared to pick a fight Sunday with a new rival: the press. During an evening rally in Racine, Wis., Santorum called on...

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    News Wrap: Americans Win Nobel for Economic Growth, Inflation Research

    Oct 10, 2011 10:13 PM EDT

    In other news Monday, two Americans won the 2011 Nobel Prize in economics. Christopher Sims and Thomas Sargent were honored for their work in the 1970s and '80s on how government policies can affect economic growth and inflation. Also, Syrian human rights activists reported that weekend clashes killed at least 31 people.