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Interracial marriage: more than double the rate in the 1980s
Americans are more likely than ever before to marry outside their race or ethnicity. Nearly 1 in 7 marriages in 2008 was interracial or interethnic, according to a report released by the Pew Research Center Friday. That’s more than double the intermarriage rate of the 1980s and six times the intermarriage rate of the 1960s. While 80 to 90 percent
Unemployment in America: Labour without force
THE best that can be said about the June jobs report is that it doesn’t signal a return to recession. Total employment fell 125,000, but this was because of an end to some temporary jobs conducting the federal census. Private payrolls
Despite difficult politics, Obama pitches immigration reform
President Obama appealed to Americans’ immigrant past – and hopes over fears – in a high-profile pitch Thursday for comprehensive immigration reform. Mr. Obama’s speech at American University seemed more a place-holder
Blast Off! Health-Care Challenge Gets Airing in Virginia
You can best bet that when members of the Senate Judiciary Committee were grilling Elena Kagan earlier this week over the Commerce Clause — that part of the U.S. Constitution from which Congress derives much of its legislative power — the
Why Did the Unemployment Rate Drop?
The unemployment rate fell in June to 9.5% from 9.7%, reaching its lowest point since last July. But the decline wasn’t due to improvement in the labor market. Instead, jobless Americans dropped out of the labor force in droves. June’s decline in the civilian labor force of 652,000 was the sharpest one-month decline in 15 years in the Labor Department’s
More Al Qaeda Links to Terror in U.S.
U.S. counterterrorism officials have linked one of the nation’;s most wanted terrorists to last year’s thwarted plot to bomb the New York City subway system, authorities said Wednesday. Current and former counterterrorism officials said top al-Qaida operative Adnan Shukrijumah met with one of the would-be suicide bombers in a plot that Attorney
June Was Deadliest Month for U.S. Troops in Nine-Year-Long War in Afghanistan
June 2010 was the deadliest month for U.S. troops in the nine-year-long war in Afghanistan. As of July 1, 59 U.S. military fatalities were reported in Afghanistan for June, making June the deadliest month overall for American troops since the war started in October 2001, according to CNSNews.com’s
US approves $33bn for Afghanistan troop increase
The House’ Democratic leaders, who had procrastinated for weeks over the bill, did not act in time to get the $33 billion to the troops by July 4 as the Pentagon had requested. They added billions of dollars in
CBO says debt will reach 62 percent of GDP by year’s end
The national debt will reach 62 percent of gross domestic product GDP by the end of this year, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office CBO said Wednesday. The budget office said the debt will reach its highest percentage of GDP since the end of World War II. The jump is driven by lower tax revenues and higher federal spending in the recent recession.
President Obama juggles competing issues of immigration and climate
President Barack Obama hosted two groups of lawmakers at the White House Tuesday on a pair of legislative issues that have divided the Democratic Party and competed for his attention. He met first with a bipartisan group of senators for talks on the way ahead on climate legislation, then sat down with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus on
