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Federal action and the housing crisis

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How the $75 billion government bailout for troubled homeowners may be making the housing crisis worse.
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The US-China economy

Exploring how America and China became one economy and why the world's prosperity depends on it....
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Unemployment benefits, jobs and foreign companies

Congress extends federal unemployment benefits, and how foreign companies are providing jobs for Americans....
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What Starbucks says about America

There may be a parable in the meteoric rise of Starbucks Coffee shops and America....
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Learning from Germany's job strategy

Subsidizing worker pay and parental leave, and collective payroll are some of ways Germany is helping its workers keep an income....
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Manual work in the information economy

The role of manual labor in the information economy, and why Matthew Crawford thinks if you really want to use your brains, try the trades....
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More women working than men

For the first time in the US, more women will be working than men, but they're still not earning the same amount of pay. ...
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Innovative ideas in affordable housing

How individuals and organizations are coming up with innovation ways to help make affordable homes available....
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Commerce Secretary Gary Locke on state of small businesses

Secretary Locke says small and minority-owned businesses among first to recover from economic downturn....
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Worker productivity up, along with wage violations

Recent productivity numbers better news for corporations than workers, as report shows surge in wage and workplace violations....
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