Monthly Archives: July 2009

More Unemployment Blues

Posted on July 2, 2009

If you’re the glass-half-full type, you might think it’s good news that the nation’s unemployment rate was largely unchanged from May to June. It crept up just 0.1 percentage points to 9.5 percent. But that also means that the original projections from President Obama’s economic advisers on what would happen …
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July 1, 2009

Posted on July 1, 2009

Hurricane Mitch hit Honduras in 1998, killing 5,600 people and causing $2 billion in damage. Source: CIA World Factbook

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The Long-Term View

Posted on July 1, 2009

As part of his ongoing health-care-overhaul tour, President Barack Obama held a town hall event July 1 in Annandale, Va. Among the president’s messages: Medicare and Medicaid spending are getting out of control. And he’s right. Obama said: “And for those who rightly worry about deficits, the amount our government …
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Veteran Visit

Posted on July 1, 2009 , Updated on July 14, 2009

Q: Was Obama rude to wounded veterans during a visit to the National Naval Medical Center? A: A chain e-mail that makes such a claim gets several facts wrong and is disputed by an official who was present at the meeting.

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