President Obama recently announced plans to reform complicated and misleading credit card practices. It is going to be hard for critics to point out fault in Obama’s plans without appearing crooked or unsympathetic in the eyes of the public. Reading that fine print has become essential to anybody signing up for a credit card, but with so many unfamiliar financial abbreviations, percentages and numbers to sort through, understanding exactly what you’re signing up for can bring you to tears. [...]
Walking away from a meeting with Cuban President Raul Castro on Monday, the leader of a seven-member Congressional delegation, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), is convinced that the Cuban President would be willing to reexamine the diplomatic relationship between the United States and Cuba. [...]
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The recent expansion of AmeriCorps goes hand in hand with President Obama’s plea with the American people to start volunteering and give special attention to community service. The plea came in his inaugural-address and later in a nationally televised speech to a joint session of Congress in February, shortly after taking office. The Senate passed a measure, named the Senator Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act [...]
The US House of Representatives passed a measure Wednesday, March 18th 2009, by a vote of 321-105 creating 175,000 “new service opportunities” under AmeriCorps. The “Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act”, known as the GIVE Act, is slated for $6 billion over the next five years. After a great show of bipartisan interest in the [...]
The Employee Free Choice Act- introduced to congress on March 10, 2009, is an update to the National Labor Relations Act of 1935. Under the new proposed litigation, employees will have more freedom in deciding whether they will join a union and according to the AFL-CIO would “would enable working people to bargain for better [...]
Edward Tinsley, Republican candidate for New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District, claims if elected he will represent the restaurant industry in Congress. Having worked in the restaurant industry for many years, Tinsley now operates 19 K-Bob’s Steakhouses in New Mexico.
According to Tinsley, some of the challenges faces the industry are immigration reform for workers, the economy [...]
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