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Monthly Archives: November 2009
November 24, 2009
President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that Thanksgiving 1939 would be held not on the last Thursday of the month, but the fourth Thursday. The declaration, which moved the national holiday up to Nov. 23 that year, was made at the request of business owners who wanted more shopping days between …
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November 23, 2009
President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that Thanksgiving would be a national holiday, observed on the last Thursday of November, in 1863. Source: Census Bureau
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November 22, 2009
Minnesota is expected to be the top turkey-producing state in 2009, raising 45.5 million of the Thanksgiving bird. Source: Census Bureau
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November 21, 2009
Of the 709 million pounds of cranberries estimated to be produced in the U.S. in 2009, 400 million pounds will come from Wisconsin. Source: Census Bureau
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Gimmicks in the Health Care Bill?
Democrats in Congress have been pleased with the Congressional Budget Office’s findings that both the House and Senate health care bills would reduce the deficit over 10 years. But is that assessment due to some accounting trickery in the bills? The conservative Employment Policies Institute is airing an ad on …
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Tagged Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, debt, Employment Policies Institute, health care, June O'Neill, medicare
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A Premium Freeze? Don’t Believe It.
In defense of House members who are under attack for supporting that body’s health care bill, two liberal-leaning organizations are on the air with ads that go overboard in describing the wonders of the legislation. Americans United for Change and a labor union, the American Federation of State, County and …
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Tagged AFSCME, Americans United for Change, health care, insurance premiums
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November 20, 2009
The 2009 forecast for turkey sale receipts to farmers is $3.8 billion. Source: Census Bureau
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Not Just the Facts
Here at FactCheck.org, we’re always excited to see news organizations devoting time to fact-checking. So we were pleased to see that the Associated Press had decided to fact-check Sarah Palin’s new memoir, "Going Rogue." Putting 11 reporters on the task strikes us as overkill, but that might just be because …
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Recovery Stats Get Rougher
We reported yesterday that the federal government’s Recovery.gov Web site, which purports to track jobs created or saved with stimulus money, was citing new jobs in nonexistent congressional districts. Today a new report from the Government Accountability Office brings news that phantom districts aren’t the only problem. GAO found almost …
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Tagged american recovery and reinvestment act, jobs, stimulus bill
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