Wondering what’s behind those recent jobless recovery numbers?
1. Fortune 500 companies tripled their profits to $391 billion in 2009.
2. They also slashed their payrolls by more than 800,000 jobs.
The 2008 presidential election promised to bring great changes to the country’s national security policy. Here are the five players who did the most to craft America’s approach to keeping its citizens safe in 2009.
Notwithstanding analyses of the remaining ballots in the NY-23 special election, which suggest that Rep. Bill Owens (D-N.Y.) will solidify his win, defeated Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman is still talking about an upset.
Jim Geraghty bestows credit on the Tea Party movement for this very under-the-radar election in Tuscon, Ariz., where a safe Democratic incumbent was ousted by a Republican novice. There’s something to that, especially when you see that “the city will not have an additional $21 million to work More…
Eric Kleefeld and Matthew Yglesias point out something that hasn’t gotten too much attention. There were two-anti tax measures on the ballot yesterday in Maine and in Washington state. In Maine, the measure failed by 20 points, and in Washington it failed by 10 points. The momentum is actually More…
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