About 44 million Americans - one in seven - lived last year in homes in which the income was below the poverty level, which is about $22,000 for a family of four. That is the largest number of people since the census began tracking poverty 51 years ago.
As I said previously, there is plenty of blame to go around in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. BP is now getting around to naming names and so far I was on the money, though they fail to mention lax government oversight, but then again, why would they burn that bridge? From FastCompany.com: BP’s...
This is the downside of hanging everything out there--Facebook, Twitter, Wordpress; it all becomes incriminating information.
After some exchange with a couple of people on Twitter regarding the WikiLeaks subject, I decide to post some quick, personal notes here, where I’m not limited to 140 characters of text, though I still aim for brevity. To give you some context on what shapes my opinion (in no specific order and obviously...
Clearly, "gun control" in Chicago is more effective at preventing law-abiding citizens from owning guns than it is at preventing criminals from obtaining guns or using guns in violent crimes. When will gun control advocates realize it's time to try something new?
Like Obama himself, his cabinet lacks real-world experience. Obama’s cabinet has the least amount of private-sector experience since at least Roosevelt. That explains a lot…if you don’t know how American businesses work, how can you help American businesses recover?