ALBANY, N.Y.— Older Americans who were raised on stories of the Great Depression and acquired lifelong habits of thrift now find themselves crowding soup kitchens and food pantries in greater numbers for the first time after seeing retirement funds, second jobs and nest eggs wiped out by recession ...
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com/Reuters) - US President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that his "thoughts and prayers" were ... ready to assist the people of Haiti," Obama said in a statement. The Obama administration said that the State Department, USAID and the US military were ...
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Rev. Al Sharpton, president and founder of National Action Network (NAN) and one of the country's foremost civil rights leaders will announce during NAN's upcoming national convention in April, the appointment of Munson Steed as Director of the Madison Avenue Initiative (MAI), a program under the National Action Network that addresses fairness in advertising,
President Obama has his first "clear edge" over Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney in polling done for The Washington Post and ABC News: "In a general-election test, Obama leads Romney 52 to 43 percent among all Americans; more ...
