Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
A community soup kitchen, run by the nonprofit Dorothy’s Place in Salinas, Calif., has been feeding the homeless for over 25 years. The soup kitchen is operated by the Franciscan Workers of Junipero Serra and local volunteers, serving hot meals to dozens of people in need on a daily basis. This year, this traditional soup kitchen is being converted into the Red Artichoke Culinary School , to engage poor and homeless people in cooking classes.
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Soup Kitchen Turned Culinary School Helps Homeless Learn To Cook
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Unemployment in metropolitan Chicago jumped to 11.6% in January, the highest in almost 27 years. The seasonally unadjusted jobless rate for January rose from 10.6% during the prior month in the Chicago-Naperville-Joliet area, according to figures released by the Illinois Department of Employment Security.
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Chicago Unemployment 11.6% In January: Highest In Almost 27 Years
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
WASHINGTON — Debate is heating up within the Federal Reserve over how and when to signal that the days of record-low interest rates are numbered. A rate hike isn’t imminent. But at their meeting Tuesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues will likely focus on how to telegraph that higher rates are coming once the economic recovery is more deeply rooted.
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Interest Rate Increase Debate Intensifies Inside Fed
Sunday, March 14th, 2010
HARTFORD, Conn. — Paul Goulet hopes Connecticut will help him get from under nearly $8,000 he’s borrowed for college after losing his job in a paper manufacturing plant. Goulet, 55, is a student in environmental studies at Goodwin College in East Hartford, aiming to find work in wastewater treatment.
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Conn. Would Waive Student Loans In ‘Green’ Jobs
Sunday, March 14th, 2010
BEIJING — China sought Sunday to deflate rising pressure from the U.S. and other powers over Chinese economic policies and growing assertiveness in world affairs, with its prime minister promising cooperation to bolster the global recovery.
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China Defends Trade Policy, Blames U.S. For Tensions
Friday, March 12th, 2010
Since her fiancé passed away in 2004, Victoria Crass, a 39-year old mother of three from Surprise, Arizona, has hung onto the 1.1-carat oval diamond engagement ring he gave her when he proposed. But when she lost her job last year and eviction loomed, Crass felt she had to decide between keeping the ring and supporting her three children.
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Unemployed Women Selling Their Wedding Rings On Craigslist
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
WASHINGTON — They just don’t get it in Washington. There’s a gaping disconnect between what Americans care about and what President Barack Obama and Congress, Democrats and Republicans are actually doing
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What The Voters Want: As Washington Dithers, Public Demands More Jobs
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Few topics have generated as much political heat between Main Street and Wall Street as the billions of dollars in bonuses handed out at financial companies that received federal bailouts.
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Another Wall Street Bonus Tax Falters In Congress
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
WASHINGTON — Legislation extending unemployment insurance for the long-term jobless faces a key test vote in the Senate, its momentum helped by about 60 popular tax breaks for individuals and businesses that expired at the end of last year. The measure also prevents doctors from absorbing a crippling cut in Medicare payments, extends health insurance subsidies for the unemployed and gives cash-starved states help with Medicaid, the federal-state program providing health care to the poor and disabled
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Unemployment Insurance Extension Faces Test Vote In Senate
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
WASHINGTON — Legislation extending unemployment insurance for the long-term jobless faces a key test vote in the Senate, its momentum helped by about 60 popular tax breaks for individuals and businesses that expired at the end of last year. The measure also prevents doctors from absorbing a crippling cut in Medicare payments, extends health insurance subsidies for the unemployed and gives cash-starved states help with Medicaid, the federal-state program providing health care to the poor and disabled. The unemployment insurance alone – to provide weekly unemployment checks averaging above $300 to people whose core 26-week benefit package has run out – will cost $66 billion through December.
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Unemployment Insurance Extension Faces Test Vote In Senate
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
WASHINGTON — Legislation extending unemployment insurance for the long-term jobless faces a key test vote in the Senate, its momentum helped by about 60 popular tax breaks for individuals and businesses that expired at the end of last year. The measure also prevents doctors from absorbing a crippling cut in Medicare payments, extends health insurance subsidies for the unemployed and gives cash-starved states help with Medicaid, the federal-state program providing health care to the poor and disabled
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Unemployment Insurance Extension Faces Test Vote In Senate
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
WASHINGTON — Legislation extending unemployment insurance for the long-term jobless faces a key test vote in the Senate, its momentum helped by about 60 popular tax breaks for individuals and businesses that expired at the end of last year. The measure also prevents doctors from absorbing a crippling cut in Medicare payments, extends health insurance subsidies for the unemployed and gives cash-starved states help with Medicaid, the federal-state program providing health care to the poor and disabled.
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Unemployment Insurance Extension Faces Test Vote In Senate
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
WASHINGTON — Legislation extending unemployment insurance for the long-term jobless faces a key test vote in the Senate, its momentum helped by about 60 popular tax breaks for individuals and businesses that expired at the end of last year.
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Unemployment Insurance Extension Faces Test Vote In Senate
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
WASHINGTON — Legislation extending unemployment insurance for the long-term jobless faces a key test vote in the Senate, its momentum helped by about 60 popular tax breaks for individuals and businesses that expired at the end of last year.
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Unemployment Insurance Extension Faces Test Vote In Senate
Monday, March 8th, 2010
Despite harsh winter conditions and high levels of unemployment, the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index rates the small Michigan town of Holland-Grand Haven as one of the happiest in the United States. The index ranks Holland as second only to Boulder, Colo
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Holland, Michigan, Happiest Because Of Giving Nature?
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