GOP ducks on health care reform
Late in the game, Republicans are proposing alternatives to Democratic health-care reform, but they re certainly not being bold. If they were, they d follow the lead of Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the party s foremost Jack Kemp-style conservative, whose ...
 3.1K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 661.0 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 661.0 Obama to sign jobless benefit
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is set to sign a $24 billion economic stimulus bill providing tax incentives to prospective homebuyers and extending unemployment benefits to the longtime jobless who have been left behind as the economy veers...
4.4K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 935.0 KEEP ON TRUCKIN'
MILLINGTON Ingrid Hill never found a full-time job after getting laid off last year, but she did find a dump truck. Hill has 22 years of experience in the construction industry, most recently working for Knife River Corp., but cutbacks last year ca...
3.8K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 370.0 Congress set to clear aid to jobless, homebuyers
WASHINGTON (AP) The House is poised to send the White House a bill extending aid to more than a million people in danger of exhausting jobless benefits and additional tax credits for prospective homebuyers crucial to rejuvenating the housing market...
3.1K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 741.0 Flat income raises concern
WASHINGTON (AP) Flat incomes suggest more weakness ahead in consumer spending, reinforcing concerns about a ho-hum holiday shopping season and a sluggish economic recovery. This recovery is going to be very weak. Consumers are in no position or moo...
4.0K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 661.0 Stimulus creating jobs
WASHINGTON (AP) About 650,000 jobs have been saved or created under President Barack Obama s economic stimulus plan, the White House said today, saying it is on track to reach the president s goal of 3.5 million jobs by the end of next year. New jo...
2.0K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 478.0 Market vendors donate to food programs
COOS BAY The Coos Bay Farmers Market closed for the season Wednesday. But after making his last sale, vendor Guy Souerbry had one last thing to do. He boxed his leftover bread from his Village Baker stand so it could be delivered to the South Coast...
3.5K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 827.0 Economy sees its first boost since spring '08
WASHINGTON The economy grew at a 3.5 percent pace in the third quarter, the best showing in two years, fueled by government-supported spending on cars and homes. It s the strongest signal yet that the economy has entered a new, though fragile, pha...
7.1K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 661.0 Governor paves way for NFL to return to Los Angeles
INDUSTRY, Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Thursday he has signed a bill allowing the construction of a 75,000-seat stadium that developers hope will lure an NFL team back to the Los Angeles area. Schwarzenegger said he signed the environment...
5.5K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 478.0 Congress moves to create financial oversight agency
WASHINGTON Congress wants another government regulator to cut through the red tape and protect your pocketbook. But there s plenty of fine print that will limit the new agency s reach. The House Financial Services Committee was on track today to ap...
2.2K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 478.0 Congress scrutinizes problems in homebuyer credit
WASHINGTON (AP) Tens of thousands of people may have taken advantage of the first-time home buyer tax credit to defraud the government, an IRS watchdog office said today, in testimony that could jeopardize efforts to extend the popular program. Tre...
4.1K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 827.0 Rates on 30-year loans inch up, to 4.92 percent
WASHINGTON Rates for 30-year home loans have inched up, but remained below 5 percent for the third-straight week as government efforts to aid the housing market continued to keep rates low. The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage was 4.92 per...
2.6K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 553.0 A window display says a lot about your business
Arlene Soto Is a nice display window important for a retail business? You never get a second chance to make a first impression. Your window is the view you have to draw that customer into your retail store. If people walking past find the merchandise...
2.7K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 478.0 Gunmen kill 39 in five attacks in Pakistan's cultural capital
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) Teams of gunmen launched coordinated attacks on three law enforcement facilities in Pakistan s cultural capital of Lahore, and car bombs exploded in two cities near the Afghan border today, killing 39 people in an escalating ...
7.2K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 370.0 New jobless claims fall as price incease rises slightly
WASHINGTON The number of newly laid-off workers filing claims for unemployment insurance has fallen to the lowest level since early January, a sign the labor market is slowly improving. And consumer price pressures remained mild in September as Am...
5.6K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 370.0 What's missing from recovery? Jobs
WASHINGTON A distressed economy is widely blamed for President George H.W. Bush s re-election defeat in 1992, and a decade earlier, for the loss of 26 House seats in midterm elections by Ronald Reagan s Republicans. Yet in both instances recession ...
5.4K - Oct. 12, 2009; scored 370.0 Don't Settle for sales in a slump
Slow business sales is a symptom. It s up to you to analyze why sales have slumped and fix the problem. Here are a few possibilities to consider. If the economic downturn is the problem, you might be eligible for the Small Business Administration ARC...
2.4K - Oct. 10, 2009; scored 370.0 Myrtle Point mill expands, hires
MYRTLE POINT A local alder mill is growing despite a recession that is hammering the lumber industry. W L Lumber, formerly known as W L Contractors, has added a lumber-drying kiln and a planer to its existing alder mill and chipping facility. The ...
5.5K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 370.0 Construction spending rises unexpectedly
WASHINGTON Construction spending rose unexpectedly in August on the biggest jump in housing activity in nearly 16 years, another sign the housing sector is mounting a recovery. The Commerce Department said Thursday that construction spending rose 0...
2.1K - Oct. 1, 2009; scored 478.0 | 
