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... like Arizona or Texas if he can land a manufacturing job there. The end to the five-year program that extended benefits for the long-term jobless affected 1.3 million people immediately and will affect hundreds of thousands more who remain jobless in the months ahead. Under the program ...
... to do to increase communications, harden ships and negotiate international agreements so that nations will be able to track traffic in the Arctic and conduct search-and-rescue missions when needed. En route to a security conference here Thursday, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said climate change, energy resources and security ...
GWEN IFILL: The Federal Reserve announced today it's keeping short-term interest rates at a record low, and continuing its stimulus efforts for now. But the Central Bank didn't repeat last month's warning that higher mortgage rates could hurt economic growth. The statement made no reference to ...
... U.S. banking system after the financial crisis erupted in 2008. The Fed lent money to banks after credit markets froze, cut its key short-term interest rate to near zero and bought trillions in bonds to lower long-term borrowing rates. Yellen, 67, emerged as the top candidate after ...
... to the report's background material -- expected to include several thousand pages of detailed scientific analysis from tens of thousands of peer-reviewed studies. In search of good bedtime reading? Panel's got you covered. How much has changed in the past six years? Fundamentally, our understanding hasn't changed ...
... art of finding ever-smaller needles in ever-larger haystacks is itself a critical technology that determines how fast both science and technology can move. Search technology made a huge step forward when the alphabetical organization of knowledge became widespread in the 18th century with the emergence of alphabetically arranged ...
Foreign guest workers depress wages for domestic workers, the authors argue. Photo courtesy of Getty Images. Paul Solman: A battle rages in economic policy circles: Should America make its borders more open to high-tech guest workers, or should we batten the hatches? Even those who oppose totally open immigration often support temporary guest worker visas,...
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell walks to the Old Senate Chamber for the Senate's joint conference on the filibuster Monday. Photo by Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call. Senators remained in search of a deal Tuesday with the goal of avoiding a showdown over proposed changes to the chamber's rules that would allow a simple majority vote...
Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images It might not be star-studded, and it's very early in the cycle, but Kentucky's Senate contest just got a lot more interesting. Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes made it official Monday that she will challenge Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, giving Democrats...
Members stream out of the House Chamber onto the East Front Plaza of the U.S. Capitol on Friday after the last vote before the Independence Day recess. Photo By Douglas Graham/CQ Roll Call When it comes to the immigration bill, the game plan in Congress is hurry up and wait. The Senate passed the so-called...
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