| May 26, 2010 | Economy / BusinessDemocrats are working to pass legislation that will extend unemployment benefits, but it faces GOP opposition. “Republicans in the Senate will likely do everything they can to stand in the way of a bill projected to add $123 billion to the deficit,” wrote...
| May 24, 2010 | Economy / BusinessDan Duncan died at the end of March. The Houston gas pipeline mogul left behind a spouse, four children, four grandkids, and a fortune worth $9 billion. Duncan, a prominent philanthropist who supported cancer research and the Boy Scouts, left behind another...
| | Economy / Business“What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can’t afford a hamburger?” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. asked in 1968. Today, many of us who fought for lunch-counter rights have children and grandchildren who can’t afford a...
| May 18, 2010 | Economy / BusinessThe gap between the net worth of African American and white families has exploded in the past generation, according to new research released by scholars at Brandeis University. An initial wealth gap of $20,000 between black and white families expanded between 1984 and...
| May 17, 2010 | Economy / BusinessWith the health-care legislation completed and the climate-change debate derailed by the BP oil disaster, Congress should get to work on the federal budget. Yet Capitol Hill has been slow to tackle this perennial challenge. Even though entitlement...
| | Economy / BusinessThe poet who said April is the cruelest month obviously didn’t know about our May. As the month began, that unpronounceable Icelandic volcano kept spewing out tons of black smoke, soot, grit, acidic gases, and all manner of obnoxious things. Airports in Spain,...
