President Obama is rallying House Democrats to support a deal with organized labor on the excise tax. President Obama has convinced labor to support the deal after days of meetings and union threats to oppose health care reform. The deal is that instead of family health insurance plans worth more than $23,000 be taxed 40%, [...]
For a second night in a row Haitians are sleeping in the streets, some are already homeless and others in fear of strong aftershocks. Despite the urgency of the situation, the international medical and rescue help is barely trickling in. The first reports are emerging from Doctors Without Borders teams who were already working on [...]
Executives from the largest financial firms blamed lax financial regulation as one of many factors that caused the recent financial crisis. But they refused to stop lobbying in opposition of efforts to reform the banking system. Congress created the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission to diagnose the root cause of the financial breakdown and prescribe ways [...]
The Dominican Republic is getting an influx of Haitians trying to cross into the country, desperate to get anything from food, candles, to medical aid. The newspaper La Republica reports that the border patrol on the border has been torn by Haitians wanting to cross over. Translation from Listin Diario article: “Mr. military man please [...]
The Department of Homeland Security announced this afternoon that deportations of people from Haiti are being halted due to the destruction from a 7.0 earthquake that hit the country on Tuesday. The damage hasn’t been assessed but reports that the infrastructure of the country has been devastated make it clear that Haiti is no place [...]
