Hitting 10 percent
WASHINGTON (AP) The unemployment rate has surpassed 10 percent for the first time since 1983 and is likely to go higher. Nearly 16 million people can t find jobs even though the worst recession since the Great Depression has apparently ended. Man...
 7.3K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 236.0 Tax breaks cost state more than predicted
PORTLAND (AP) State officials deliberately underestimated the cost of Gov. Ted Kulongoski s plan to lure green energy companies to Oregon with big taxpayer subsidies, resulting in a program that cost 40 times more than unsuspecting lawmakers were t...
11.0K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 158.0 GMAC seeking more federal aid
NEW YORK (AP) GMAC, the former lending arm of General Motors Co., is in talks with the Treasury Department for a third injection of taxpayer aid, a further sign of the U.S. government s entrenchment in the U.S. auto industry. The Treasury Departmen...
3.7K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 282.0 100 banks have failed this year
WASHINGTON (AP) Bank closings for the year hit 100 on Friday when regulators shut down Partners Bank in Florida. Financial institutions nationwide have collapsed under the weight of soured real estate loans and the Great Recession. The Federal Depo...
5.1K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 330.0 Obama s top foreign aid position is still open
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama faces increasing pressure to fill his administration s vacant top foreign assistance post, but there s no candidate in sight nine months into his term. The U.S. Agency for International Development is in charg...
4.9K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 204.0 100 banks have failed this year
WASHINGTON (AP) Bank closings for the year hit 100 on Friday when regulators shut down Partners Bank in Florida. Financial institutions nationwide have collapsed under the weight of soured real estate loans and the Great Recession. The Federal Depo...
5.1K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 330.0 Obama s top foreign aid position is still open
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama faces increasing pressure to fill his administration s vacant top foreign assistance post, but there s no candidate in sight nine months into his term. The U.S. Agency for International Development is in charg...
4.9K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 204.0 College provides career training in health care
Southwestern Oregon Community College has several opportunities for people interested in health care careers. Southwestern offers both a face-to-face and an online version of the basic nursing assistant courses, and is hoping to have its first cohort...
1.9K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 158.0 College tuition is up amid recession
With the economy struggling, parents and students dared to hope this year might offer a break from rising college costs. Instead, they got another sharp increase. Average tuition at four-year public colleges in the U.S. climbed 6.5 percent, or $...
6.0K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 495.0 Bailout watchdog expects much to remain unrefunded
WASHINGTON (AP) The man who watches over the $700 billion in government money given to banks and other institutions to avert a financial collapse said today he thinks it s too early to say how much will be repaid to the taxpayers. Just as the ...
4.7K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 316.0 Did he lie? Stufflebean's bankruptcy explanation doesn t add up
Coos County Commissioner Kevin Stufflebean s public explanation of his recent bankruptcy filing contains factual discrepancies, The World has learned. In July, Stufflebean and his wife filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy protection in federal court in Eu...
9.7K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 307.0 Deficit surges to $1.42 trillion
WASHINGTON What is $1.42 trillion? It s more than the total national debt for the first 200 years of the Republic, more than the entire economy of India, almost as much as Canada s, and more than $4,700 for every man, woman and child in t...
8.3K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 204.0 Did he lie? Stufflebean's bankruptcy explanation doesn t add up
Coos County Commissioner Kevin Stufflebean s public explanation of his recent bankruptcy filing contains factual discrepancies, The World has learned. In July, Stufflebean and his wife filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy protection in federal court in Eu...
9.7K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 307.0 Deficit surges to $1.42 trillion
WASHINGTON What is $1.42 trillion? It s more than the total national debt for the first 200 years of the Republic, more than the entire economy of India, almost as much as Canada s, and more than $4,700 for every man, woman and child in t...
8.3K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 204.0 UN says declining aid has increased hunger
ROME (AP) Even before the economic crisis pushed the ranks of the world s hungry to a record 1 billion, declining aid and investment in agriculture had been steadily increasing the number of undernourished people for more than a decade, a U.N. food...
1.4K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 204.0 Treasury not prepared for AIG bonuses
WASHINGTON (AP) The fierce debate over bonuses for bailed-out executives was revived on Capitol Hill today as a government watchdog explained how some executives nearly brought down the financial system then pocketed millions. Neil Barofsky, the ...
4.0K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 316.0 Paperwork mess may lead to adopted teen's deportation
PORTLAND (AP) A lawsuit filed by the mother of an adopted Mexican teenager now in danger of deportation says the state failed to advise the adoptive parents they needed to file a citizenship application. The Oregonian reports Lisa Catt's $...
1.2K - Oct. 11, 2009; scored 158.0 Chinese manufacturer takes over Hummer
DETROIT (AP) Hummer, the off-road vehicle that once epitomized America s love for hulking trucks, is now in the hands of a Chinese heavy equipment maker. General Motors Co. and Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Corp. finally signed the m...
4.6K - Oct. 10, 2009; scored 158.0 Two women found alive in quake's rubble
PADANG, Indonesia Rescuers pulled two women alive from a collapsed college, nearly two days after a powerful earthquake devastated western Indonesia, as cries for help from a flattened hotel spurred the frantic search for more survivors today. The ...
7.0K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 204.0 Biden swears in Kirk
WASHINGTON (AP) Former Democratic Party chairman Paul G. Kirk Jr. stepped in Friday as the temporary replacement in the Senate for his longtime friend, the late Edward Kennedy. Kirk said taking over the Massachusetts seat left him with mixed emotio...
2.7K - Sep. 26, 2009; scored 158.0 | 
