Posts Tagged ‘United States’

Debate begins in earnest as U.S. hits debt limit (Reuters)

Reuters – The United States will reach the limits of its borrowing authority on Monday, but don’t expect to hear alarm bells in Washington or on Wall Street. View full post on All Stories

Student borrowing passes credit card debt

NEW YORK, April 12 (UPI) — Student loans are piling up in the United States with two-thirds of those who received bachelor’s degrees in 2008 graduating owing money, an expert says. View full post on All Stories

Australia named leader in fiscal discipline

A new study names Australia and New Zealand as leaders in “fiscal responsibility” among top industrial nations.The United States plumbs the lower rankings at number 28.The Sovereign Fiscal … View full post on All Stories

Fixing California may come at a high cost

California carries the largest annual deficit of any state in the United States yet also implements the highest percentage of taxation on its residents. How does a state obtain enormous amounts of revenue and finish the fiscal year with red ink?In… Stephen Michael II March 15, 2011 View full post on All Stories

U.S. Watches As Ambassador Holbrooke Collapses

Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. president’s special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, is struggling in a critical condition at George Washington University hospital after admission on Friday morning. “This morning, doctors completed surgery to repair a tear in his aorta. He is in critical [...]

Language barrier key for Nepali in New York

Anil Giri – AHN News Correspondent Kathmandu, Nepal (AHN) – Nepali Diasporas living in New York face a language barrier, creating a major challenge that causes immigrants to miss out on jobs and other opportunities in the United States. Most of the Nepalis who reached the U.S. in search of green pastures are at the [...]

International Outrage Follows Arrest of Wikileaks Founder

Tom Ramstack – AHN News Correspondent London, United Kingdom (AHN) – International protest is building about the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange this week. Assange is being held in a British jail awaiting extradition to Sweden on rape charges. Meanwhile, the U.S. Justice Department is seeking to extradite him to the United States to [...]

New U.S. Unemployment Claims Drop To 421,000

Linda Young – AHN News Writer Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – New claims for unemployment compensation dropped to 421,000 for the week ending Dec. 4, a decrease of 17,000 claims from the week before, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Not all jobless workers are insured by the unemployment compensation program. The advance [...]

House Votes To Cut Funds For Terror Detainee Transfers Out Of Guantanamo Bay

AHN News Staff Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – In an attempt to prevent President Barack Obama’s plan to bring terror suspects to the United States for trial, the House voted 212-206 on Tuesday to curb the government’s expenses in the fiscal year. The measure targeted funds aimed at transferring inmates from a military holding [...]

Wal-Mart to stop extra $1 Sunday pay for employees

Vittorio Hernandez – AHN News News Writer Bentonville, Arkansas, United States (AHN) – Wal-Mart Stores announced Wednesday that it will no longer pay its employees who work Sundays an additional $1 an hour. The new policy, however, would only cover workers hired after Jan. 1, 2011. Current U.S. employees numbering 1.4 million will not be [...]

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