47% of adults have full-time job
The release of the June Jobs Report Friday was something of a relief for the markets. The Labor Department reported that the economy gained 195,000 jobs in June, which beat economists expectations. The Department also reported that the economy gained...
95% jobless rate for poor black teen dropouts
Paul Solman: Northeastern University economist Andrew Sum is featured in our youth joblessness story on the NewsHour Friday. His full picture of the crisis is essential reading, however, and so we share more of my interview with him here. For example...
2/3 of uninsured wary of Obamacare
There s no assurance folks will be buying insurance under Obamacare, and that could spell trouble for the Affordable Care Act. Nearly two-thirds of Americans who currently lack health insurance don t know yet if they will purchase that coverag...
Medicare bankrupt by 2026
Medicare will reach insolvency by 2026 while Social Security s two trust funds will become insolvent by 2033, the program s trustees reported Friday. Unless Congress acts, Social Security will no longer be able to pay full benefits to reti...
Tax dollars used to lobby for higher taxes
At least seven U.S. communities that received stimulus money as part of a $373 million government program to educate Americans about obesity and tobacco use potentially violated federal law by using the funds to lobby for higher taxes and new local l...
Obamacare chaos is coming
The biggest political problem faced by so-called liberals and so-called progressives in President Obama s second term is how to prevent voters from holding them politically responsible as the public comes to realize how badly they were lied to during...