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U.S. Sen. Grassley: Makes progress on legislation to help foster care kids get permanent, loving homes

Iowa Politics

July 30, 2008

Senator Chuck Grassley said today that his legislation to help move kids in foster care to permanent home is scheduled for consideration on Friday by the Senate Committee on Finance.

Grassley urged congressional leaders to find a way to achieve final passage of the legislation before the end of this year's session. Grassley is the Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Finance, which is responsible for social welfare legislation including adoption policies.

The Net Effect of Minimum Wage

independent.org

by Art Carden

July 29, 2008

Last week, the federal minimum wage increased from $5.85 per hour to $6.55 per hour. While some are celebrating the change as a boon for low-wage workers, the measure's net effect will be negative.

Employers will reduce employee hours and job benefits as they attempt to minimize operations costs, and workers will suffer from fewer opportunities and, ultimately, less experience. As has been the case every time the federal minimum wage increases, the low-wage workers are hit the hardest. A higher minimum wage means fewer opportunities for those who need them most. In competitive labor markets, wages are not determined by social custom or "need." They are determined by productivity. Every hour of labor that does not produce more than $6.55 worth of output will not be scheduled.

The Business of Child Stealing

Family Rights

by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

July 27, 2008

We are going to take you behind the lies into the ugly truth that is destroying families for profit every day, in every community across America.

You won't want to believe it but when you see their faces, hear their voices, you will understand why this is happening and what it means to your own life, even if you don't have children. The same system that views children as commodities to be sold also has plans for you. There is a solution and we will get to that.

The next Internet-sized boom

MSN Money

by Michael Brush

July 16, 2008

There are big green dollars to be made by investors in green energy. You can wait for the coming tsunami of IPOs or take a look at 4 good plays now.

Move over, Google. There's a new Big Trend on the way. And this one could produce even more wealth than the Internet for those who play their cards right. I'm talking about green energy. And if you're among the skeptics who think alternative energy is a do-gooder investment best left to tree huggers, insanely high oil prices should change your mind.

The Great Depression of 2008

Op Ed News

by Marc McDonald

July 15, 2008

Until last week, most economists were divided on whether the U.S. was in a recession or not. Now, with the ailing mortgage agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on the ropes, it's clear that what's unfolding is far worse than any recession.

As Britain's normally staid The Telegraph newspaper notes, we could be on the verge of a new Great Depression. That might seem far-fetched until you consider that last month, the Dow suffered its worst June since 1930. The New York Times, "We are closer to the Depression scenario than not." Yes, a real Depression, complete with tent cities now springing up in what once were prosperous suburbs.

Fannie, Freddie and you

MSN Money

by Jon Markman

July 14, 2008

Encouraged to take bigger risks, the 2 mortgage giants did just that, and now they're reeling. Fixing the mess will take billions -- and make getting new home loans much harder.

Unless you have all your money under the mattress, fat chance of avoiding a direct hit now, as the same sort of misguided government policies that brought us $145-per-barrel oil and a five-year Iraq war have now clearly taken the American financial system to the brink of ruin.

Critical flaw rocks the internet

The Sydney Morning Herald

July 9, 2008

Computer industry heavyweights are hustling to fix a flaw in the foundation of the internet that would let hackers control traffic on the World Wide Web.

Major software and hardware makers worked in secret for months to create a software "patch" released on Tuesday to repair the problem, which is in the way computers are routed to web page addresses.

Sewer system probed following plutonium spill

World Net Daily (CO)

July 2, 2008

City officials in Boulder, are investigating whether plutonium, the key ingredient in triggers for nuclear bombs, was washed into their municipal wastewater system when the metal was spilled during a project at the NIST.

According to a report in the Denver Post, the contamination may have reached the municipal system when two people involved in the spill a week earlier washed their hands in a washroom, just feet from the lab where a vial holding a quarter gram of plutonium powder was spilled.

Federal workers contaminated with plutonium

World Net Daily (CO)

July 2, 2008

An unspecified number of federal workers on the Boulder, Colo., campus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology will have to be treated for plutonium contamination after an accident.

NIST officials confirmed that a "small number of personnel" have tested positive for the exposure and will undergo chelation treatment in hopes of preventing an advanced risk for cancer.

More information on arrest of county worker

Las Vegas Sun

by Abigail Goldman

June 27, 2008

New information about the arrest of Clark County Senior Family Service Specialist Deborah Ann Edmonston has surfaced - though there are still several questions to be answered.

Edmonston, who was charged with two counts of battery with a deadly weapon related to domestic violence, child endangerment and malicious destruction of private property, was driving her 14-year-old daughter to her father's house and pulled the girl by her hair back into the car when she tried to get out.

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