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Federal funds to train the jobless are drying up
With the economy slowly reviving, an executive from Atlas Van Lines recently visited Louisville, Ky., with good news: the company wanted to hire more than 100 truck drivers ahead of the summer moving season....
Welfare limits left poor adrift as recession hit
PHOENIX — Perhaps no law in the past generation has drawn more praise than the drive to “end welfare as we know it,” which joined the late-’90s economic boom to send caseloads plunging, employment rates rising and officials of both parties hailing the virtues of tough love....
Aid groups push Obama administration to shift the way US helps feed starving people abroad
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Jim Yong Kim, Dartmouth College president, tapped by Obama to head World Bank
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‘Special interest’ tax breaks would be tough to cut, Congressional Research Service says
The vast majority of tax breaks in the U.S. tax code would be hard to cut because they promote important social goals or are “hugely popular” with voters, according to a new congressional analysis that casts doubt on Republican pro...
US economy adds 227,000 jobs in February; unemployment rate remains at 8.3 percent; 13 million people still unemployed
As the country logs its third straight month of strong job growth, economists and politicians are daring to hope that a recovery dogged by false starts and sluggishness is finally taking hold....
Online, Joseph Kony and the Lords’s Resistance Army soar to topic number one
KAMPALA, Uganda — Jason Russell said he never knew he was driving into a war zone. At 24, he had just graduated from the University of Southern California after studying film, he said, and was out looking for a story to tell....
Intractable Afghan graft hampering US strategy–Afghan government has yet to prosecute a high-level corruption case
KABUL, Afghanistan — For the past few months, possibly the most intriguing poker game in Kabul has been taking place in the sprawling pink sitting room of the man at the center of one of the most public corruption scandals in the world, the near collapse of Kabul Bank....
US special operations forces are engaged in “more than 100 countries worldwide,” commander says
(Washington, DC, March 7, 2012) US special operations forces are engaged in “more than 100 countries worldwide,” said Adm. William H. McRaven, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee on March 6sterday. “In significant way...
Pentagon commander says US special forces in India and four other Asian countries
US special forces are present in five South Asian countries, including India, a top Pentagon commander has revealed.US Pacific Commander Admiral Robert Willard said the teams were deployed to help India with their counter-terrorism co-operation....
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