by Sylvan Lane | Feb 12, 2014 | Business, Living
WASHINGTON—Five years after the Great Recession stalled the American economy, senior citizen entrepreneurship might be what the United States needs to kick the slow recovery into another gear. Now, the Senate is trying to figure out what needs to be done help “encore...
by Jane Herman | Feb 11, 2014 | Living, National Security
WASHINGTON- The Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program – widely known on college campuses as ROTC — is expanding to cover a more geographically and economically diverse student base, says retired Army Gen. Jack Keane. ROTC is the major military commissioning...
by Jeanne Kuang | Feb 4, 2014 | Living
WASHINGTON – If President Barack Obama’s recently announced Promise Zones initiative succeeds, five poverty-stricken neighborhoods across the country — urban and rural — will soon receive resources and volunteers to act on their plans for revitalization....
by Sara Olstad | Jan 29, 2014 | Living
WASHINGTON – On the fifth anniversary of the enactment of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, high-ranking congressional Democrats called Wednesday for Republicans to stop blocking reforms that would protect women in the workplace. “There is no reason on God’s green...
by Sophia Bollag | Jan 27, 2014 | Living
WASHINGTON — The Affordable Care Act will increase income for the poorest 20 percent of Americans because of the value of the subsidies – an unintended benefit of the health care law, a Brookings Institution study released Monday said. Although the ACA was not...
by Jane Herman | Jan 22, 2014 | Business, Living
WASHINGTON – More than 100 Pentagon contract workers carrying poster of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and singing “We Shall Overcome” picketed outside the building Wednesday to demand that companies doing business with the federal government raise the...
by Ellen Garrison | Jan 22, 2014 | Living, Politics
WASHINGTON – Community programs and law enforcement are crucial elements in preventing gang violence, a group of mayors sad Wednesday. During the Mayors and Police Chiefs Task Force meeting, Mayor Steve Benjamin of Columbia, S.C., also stressed the importance of...
by Sara Olstad | Jan 22, 2014 | Living
WASHINGTON – A majority of Supreme Court justices appeared to be sympathetic toward victims of abuse in a case Wednesday concerning reparations for child pornography victims. The case, Paroline v. United States, involves a woman referred to only as “Amy,” who was...
by Sara Olstad | Jan 15, 2014 | Living
WASHINGTON – Holocaust survivor Jack Rubin told a Senate committee Wednesday that aging Holocaust survivors in the United States are better served by home health care than care in nursing homes, which can trigger memories of being held against their will during World...
by Sylvan Lane | Jan 15, 2014 | Immigration, Living
WASHINGTON – Tens of thousands of Burmese refugees flowed into the country between 2002 and 2011. However, this ethnic community is too small and new to get on the radar screens of many government and social agencies, and at this point lacks the economic and social...
by Jane Herman | Jan 15, 2014 | Living
WASHINGTON — When she was a homeless single mother, Evelyn Wynn-Dixon contemplated suicide as her only escape from poverty. Today, she is the mayor of Riverdale, Ga. “All some people need is just a hand, not always money like people think, just support,” said...
