U.S.
Immigrants face detentions, few rights
April 3, 2009(AP) America's detention system for immigrants has mushroomed in the last decade, a costly building boom that was supposed to sweep up criminals and ensure that undocumented immigrants were quickly shown the door. Instead, an Associated...
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Editorial: Good bank is good business
April 3, 2009Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has to figure out how to revive a financial system that is on life support, dying from self-inflicted wounds. The problem is, the patient isn’t responding to the current treatment, so more...
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Senate hearing urges job creation
April 2, 2009WASHINGTON—Leading economists told the Senate, Mar. 30, that more, not less federal funds are needed to create millions more jobs to pull the nation out of the deepest recession since the Great Depression. They warned that...
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The Obama budget and the environment: How cap-and-trade works
April 2, 2009Did you know that the US already has a cap-and-trade system? Passed as part of the 1990 Clean Air Act by a Democratic Congress and signed into law by George H.W. Bush, the cap on sulfur...
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Head Red goes to Boulder for a lalapalooza conference
April 2, 2009BOULDER, Colorado -– Some may call it Conference-a-palooza. Film critic Roger Ebert calls it “The Conference on Everything Conceivable.” But its more conventional name is 'The Conference on World Affairs' and it's hosted by The University...
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