Us Federal Jobs News
- House Passes Cut, Cap and Balance Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 6:16PMVote was largely divided down party lines.
- Gallegly, Capps split along party lines on plan to raise debt ceiling Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 5:58PMAs the debate in Washington over whether to raise the debt ceiling escalates, representatives Elton Gallegly and Lois Capps are on opposite sides.
- Small Broward bank gets federal boost for loans Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 5:32PMBroward Bank of Commerce is getting capital from a federal fund that will allow it to make at least $20 million in loans to small businesses in South Florida.
- How more produce from Michigan farms may end up in school lunches Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 3:56AMBut "the devil’s in the details,” one West Michigan farmer says about a new federal pilot program.
- Ahead of the Bell: Housing starts Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 3:44AMBuilders likely broke ground on more homes in June, but hardly enough to spark a rebound in the struggling housing market.
- Ont. coroner examines spate of First Nation youth suicides Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 7:01AMJanice started abusing solvents when she was 10, the same year she spent her first of many nights in a police cell. At 12, she first attempted suicide.
- If State Banks, Why Not County Banks? Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 6:02AMIf counties and states create their own banks, they could alleviate the credit crunch by doing what large private banks should have been doing for the country all along.
- Obama wants debt deal comprimise Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 5:27AMBarack Obama has urged Congress to quickly forge a deal to keep the US from plunging into debt default.
- SC to unveil new small business loan program Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 12:30PMSouth Carolina small businesses will get a new source of funds under a new federal program.
- Embattled News Intl CEO Rebekah Brooks resigns Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 10:16AMMurdoch lieutenant steps down amid phone hacking scandal
- Is the carbon tax battle over? Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 2:44PMWith the benefit of hindsight, would Julia Gillard be better off now if she had pedantically insisted a price on carbon is not a tax, but a charge? The argument would have obsessed the media for a while and annoyed a lot of the electorate. But over time, it would probably have faded.
- Greetings from Literary D.C. 200 Years of Writing about Washington Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 2:39PMWashington’s writerly class is easy to deride: Scribes who’ve never met a dependent clause they didn’t like, publishers who know there’s always room in the market for another tome on the future of Social Security, literary scenesters whose calendars revolve around book parties celebrating the memoirs of superannuated Capitol Hill bureau chiefs.
- Cleveland 1 of 6 cities in pilot program Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 10:08AMThe Obama administration is launching a pilot program designed to spark economic growth in Cleveland.
- Stocks Firmly Lower at Mid-Day; European Debt Concerns, China Inflation Weigh Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 9:58AMStocks are lower at mid-session in a rough start to the week as investors fret over renewed European debt concerns and rising inflation in China. European markets were lower with the FTSE down
- Leahy: Marriage equality bill to get hearing Saturday, July 9, 2011 @ 12:09AMSen. Patrick Leahy says the Senate Judiciary Committee will soon hold hearings on a bill that would repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act. ... - By Brent Curtis STAFF WRITER
- Demand Still Galloping Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 11:55PMFORT WORTH, Texas — More than 100,000 U.S. horses a year are still being turned into chops and steaks for Europeans and Asians since three slaughter plants in Texas and Illinois were closed in 2007.
- Carson Airport gets grant Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 11:28PMSen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., Tuesday announced a $1.27 million federal grant for the Carson Airport. Airport manager Tim Rowe said the money will not only upgrade safety at the airport but clear the way for expansion of hanger and business space.
- US jobs growth stalls, setting back recovery hopes Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 2:02PMUS jobs growth ground to a near halt in June as employers hired the fewest workers in nine months.
- Employment report ‘quite negative’ Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 2:00PMUric Dufrene, Sanders chair of the Indiana University School of Business, said employers only added 18,000 jobs last month when 100,000 new positions were anticipated.
- Money gone rogue Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 2:00PMAs U.S. debt talks go down to the wire, FP reporter John Greenwood hits the road in Iowa. He finds a growing number of Americans believe returning to the gold standard is the only way to restore U.S. fiscal sanity
- Plan moves ahead for sulfur facility Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 1:52PMMARK HIBBS MOREHEAD CITY — Jet Matthews, developer and manager of the Morehead City Yacht Basin, says his investment and the lure of the downtown district to vacationers is at risk under an N.C. State Ports Authority plan to build a sulfur handling and melting facility next to the marina.
- Reactions to the Grim June Jobs Report: What Went Wrong Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 8:22AMThe June jobs report does not look good for anybody. With unemployment up 9.2 percent and only 18,000 jobs added--despite reports that up to 175,000 jobs had been created--Republican leaders have been quick to blame President Obama for not better handling the recovery. Obama is doing damage control by delivering a statement Friday morning and likely attempting not to let the jobs report blow the ...
- Dollar sinks after weak US jobs report Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 8:18AMThe dollar fell broadly Friday after a U.S. report on jobs showed surprisingly weak hiring in June.
- Stocks up on strong US employment data Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 7:36AMLONDON - Stronger than expected U.S. jobs figures helped stocks rally Thursday and helped investors brush off interest...
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- Questions of blame remain in ATF gun-trafficking investigation Wednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 2:03AMThe investigation put hundreds of guns from Arizona into the hands of criminals in Mexico.
- Queen of the Tea Party Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 7:42AMIf she’d fallen backward, she’d have been killed. It was September 2009, during her second term in Congress, and a magazine had sent a photographer to shoot Michele Bachmann. He escorted her to the third floor rotunda in the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill, where he positioned a large orange crate next to the balustrade. He told her to stand on it. She reluctantly obliged. Behind ...
- The New Commanding Heights Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 7:28AMIn the early 1920s, the Russian economy was flagging, having been ravaged by years of war and political turmoil. In an attempt at revival, Vladimir Lenin initiated a series of controversial reforms, including permitting a bit of profit-making enterprise in some areas of the economy.
- Fight the Debtocracy in D.C. Monday, July 4, 2011 @ 4:00PMTime is running out, both for the America we have known and for a government of, by and for the people. The candidates for Dean Heller’s House seat spoke at a forum June 24th; the attendance was meager! Forty people out of forty thousand from this area!
- Alabama crackdown Monday, July 4, 2011 @ 6:57AMThe tough new immigration law comes to the south
