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Even as economy recovers, long-term jobless struggle
After a recession, here is the way things are supposed to work. As growth returns, employers gain some confidence and add jobs. As job openings rise, the number of people unemployed begins to fall. And, on balance, that's happening — both in...
Tags: Employment, Seminole County, Unemployment, Employment Opportunities, Brookings Institution
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An agency-by-agency guide to Obama's 2014 budget
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has proposed a $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal 2014 that aims to slash the deficit by $1.8 trillion over 10 years, raise taxes on the wealthy and trim popular benefit programs including Social Security and...Tags: Medicaid, Ecosystems, Transportation Security Administration, George W. Bush, Laws
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Why is the Pentagon exempted from scrutiny?
The most common complaint from people who email me about my columns is that the federal government is horrible: Too big and growing too fast, too corrupt and wasteful, and providing too many benefits to too many Americans. If we just shrink the...Tags: Government, Political Corruption, Corruption, Ronald Reagan, Career and Workplace
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Bombing suspect's mother certain on sons' innocence
BOSTON (AP) — The angry and grieving mother of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects insists that her sons are innocent and that she's no terrorist. But Zubeidat Tsarnaeva is drawing increased attention after federal officials say Russian...
Tags: Terrorism, Today (tv program), Personal Service, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security
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Ex-wives should not end up indigent
I'm a 57-year-old woman who has been married for 32-plus years to a successful personal injury lawyer. In supporting his career and raising four children, I gave up many educational and business opportunities to be there for my family. We went to the same...Tags: Health Insurance
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Farming: SNAP will bite back
Two of the greatest ironies of living in the richest, strongest nation in the history of the world are how many poor people remain in 21st century America and how vulnerable — as the Boston bombings showed again — we are to evildoers....Tags: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Eric Cantor, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Congressional Budget Office, U.S. Congress
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Corbett's asset test finds little abuse in $2.6 billion food stamp program
It's the question Kathryn Hoffman hates to ask, especially of the elderly people who come into her office looking for help. Do you have a burial plot? How much is it worth? But that question is one of many Hoffman must ask as a food stamp outreach...
Tags: Medicaid, Edward G. Rendell, Bill Clinton, Interior Policy, Government Health Care
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Small Airports In Connecticut Spared Cuts
The Hartford CourantSix airports in Connecticut have been spared from cuts under a bill passed Friday by the U.S. House of Representatives, just hours after passage by the Senate. U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and the Connecticut delegation have been fighting for months...Tags: U.S. Senate, Air Transportation Industry, Head Start, Unemployment, Richard Blumenthal
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In Theory: Has the economy damaged the work ethic?
Sociologist Max Weber first advanced the idea of a Protestant work ethic in 1914. A recent study suggests that not only does this ethic exist, it can make the effects of unemployment worse for Protestants than for non-Protestants. The Dutch survey,...Tags: Human Interest, Unemployment, Religion and Belief, 401K, Social Issues
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Boca church gives homeless a chance to clean up
BOCA RATON — With several soup kitchens and food-focused charities, south Palm Beach County's homeless people seem to find enough to eat. But keeping clean has been a challenge. So, a small offer from a church has proven a godsend for some...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Social Issues, Homelessness, Delray Beach
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Michigan Legislature starts passing budget plans
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Lawmakers began setting the table Wednesday for how to spend $49 billion in the next Michigan budget, with big disputes to be resolved next month over expanding Medicaid, boosting road maintenance, giving tax credits for movie-...Tags: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Government, Rentals, Medicaid, Republican Party
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Retail, fast-food workers rally for higher pay in Chicago
Standing with other protesters on Chicago's storied State Street, Charde Nabors, 21, said she's fighting for better pay and more opportunities for workers like her. Nabors said she earns $9 an hour at Sears and would like to work full time, rather...
Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Occupy Wall Street, Employment, Navy Pier, Dunkin' Donuts
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