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 175.0 Reports: Federal stimulus sends $1.8B to Oregon
PORTLAND (AP) Oregon has received about $1.8 billion in the first eight months of the federal stimulus program credited with saving or creating nearly 10,000 jobs in the state. Reports released Friday showed the largest number of jobs saved by...
3.1K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 245.0 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 151.0 Don't mess up a good program
Social Security is a glossy piece of paper on which nearly every politician wants to finger-paint an agenda. But Social Security has no need of ornament. It is a very grown-up program. Come January, for the first time since 1975, Social Security paym...
3.1K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 194.0 House bill adds to jobless benefits in 27 states
WASHINGTON With no end in sight to the country s job market woes, the House has agreed to give the jobless in a majority of states another 13 weeks of unemployment insurance benefits. The bill, which passed the House 331-83 , approves the extra th...
4.3K - Sep. 23, 2009; scored 175.0 Shrinking Social Security
WASHINGTON Millions of older people face shrinking Social Security checks next year, the first time in a generation that payments would not rise. The trustees who oversee Social Security are projecting there won t be a cost of living adjustment (CO...
5.5K - Aug. 24, 2009; scored 117.0 Stimulus puts teens to work
MORGAN CREEK Local teens spent six weeks with kids they might not normally hang out with, working unique jobs and making memories they might never forget. And they were paid for it. A total of 177 teenagers, including 14- and 15-year-olds, have bee...
3.1K - Aug. 17, 2009; scored 117.0 Lakeside council should help seniors
I have been asked Who do the politicians work for? several times in the past few months. My thoughts are that a politician should do what is best for the majority of the people. In our town the majority is retired and/or senior citizens. When I ran...
2.3K - Jul. 25, 2009; scored 194.0 Cities push for stimulus funds to pay for sewer work
CARBON HILL, Ill. - Sewage from toilets flows in open ditches here, spilling into back yards and even onto the lone baseball diamond where children play after school. The nose-wrinkling stench carries throughout this century-old, one-diner village o...
5.1K - May. 4, 2009; scored 269.0 Obama plans crackdown on business tax breaks
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama plans to propose changes to tax policy certain to be unpopular with corporations with international divisions and individuals who use tax havens. Obama also plans to ask Congress for 800 new federal tax agents to e...
4.4K - May. 4, 2009; scored 117.0 Specter flips back to join Democrats
WASHINGTON (AP) -Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter is a Democrat again following a decades-long turn among Republicans, a defection that has the GOP warning about the perils of unchecked power only a few years after it controlled both the White House a...
5.5K - Apr. 29, 2009; scored 117.0 Stimulus is bad news for seniors
The new stimulus package - proposed by the administration and passed by Congress - has a bit of a shell game built into it much to the disadvantage of many older retirees. I receive a pension based on my employment prior to retirement. My pension is ...
2.3K - Apr. 27, 2009; scored 223.0 Krieger visits Coquille students
COQUILLE - Coquille High School student David Simpson has met a politician he likes. The high school junior said Rep. Wayne Krieger is better at answering questions than other lawmakers he's heard. Simpson was among about 30 students at the high scho...
4.7K - Apr. 7, 2009; scored 151.0 State budgeters release cut lists
SALEM - With a deficit of $3 billion - and growing - lawmakers Friday released a list of potential cuts the state will have to make to balance its 2009-2011 budget. The capitol's chief budget writers had asked state agencies to submit lists ...
3.5K - Apr. 4, 2009; scored 117.0 Older workers delay retirement
WASHINGTON - In these scary economic times, older workers are putting off their retirement and hanging on to a paycheck. Some retirees struggling to make ends meet are scanning help-wanted ads for the first time in years. About a week ago, Jeff Rolli...
7.4K - Mar. 31, 2009; scored 117.0 Obama the efficient goes to D.C.
How lucky we are to have Barack Obama as president. He s already come up with a revolutionary idea that escaped his predecessors : He s going to scour the budget for ... waste and inefficiency ... go line by line through the federal budget in order ...
2.8K - Mar. 9, 2009; scored 151.0 Pitchfork time
In his campaign and inaugural address, Barack Obama cast himself as a moderate man seeking common ground with conservatives. Yet, his budget calls for the radical restructuring of the U.S. economy, a sweeping redistribution of power and wealth to gov...
4.9K - Mar. 4, 2009; scored 117.0 Senator works to keep money on coast
COOS BAY Today, the Oregon Senate will begin working on the governor s transportation package, also known as the Jobs and Transportation Act of 2009. Sen. Joanne Verger plans to be there. The Coos Bay Democrat, who is a member of the Senate Transpo...
4.0K - Mar. 2, 2009; scored 117.0 Jobless hit with bank fees on benefits
For hundreds of thousands of workers losing their jobs during the recession, there s a new twist to their financial pain: Even as they re collecting unemployment benefits, they re paying bank fees just to get access to their money. Thirty states have...
8.6K - Feb. 20, 2009; scored 235.0 Stimulus package moves to final votes
WASHINGTON Economic stimulus legislation at the heart of President Barack Obama s recovery plan is on track for final votes Friday in the House and Senate after a dizzying final round of bargaining that yielded agreement on tax cuts and spending to...
4.4K - Feb. 12, 2009; scored 117.0 | 
