Pin ItemailprintWell, here it is. Today, President Barack Obama released his much-anticipated debt reduction plan, which he says should save the country about $3 trillion. Obama’s plan includes $1.5 trillion in new revenue, generated mostly by increased taxes on the rich, a measure Republicans say will hinder an already weak economy. The measure does not [...]
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In further proof that the economy is in worse shape than we think, the U.S. poverty rate has risen to 15.1 percent, the highest level since 1983, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Trudi Renwick, the bureau’s chief of the Poverty Statistics Branch, says “the single most important factor” in the rise in the poverty [...]
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A woman in Florida was sentenced to a year and a day in prison on Monday for storing her mother’s corpse in a bedroom in her house for several years while collecting more than $230,000 in benefits. Penelope Sharon Jordan pleaded guilty to theft of government funds back in June, according to the U.S. Attorney’s [...]
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