by Kaitlin Meehan | Aug 22, 2011 | Business & Tech, National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON — While the public is concerned with the 9 percent unemployment rate across the country, a certain subset of the population is especially worried – veterans. The post-9/11 veteran unemployment rate is 13.3 percent and ranges as high as 30...
by Kaitlin Meehan | Aug 22, 2011 | Business & Tech, National Security
Ryan Koniak has nine years of experience in the Army National Guard including two overseas deployments. He also has a bachelor’s degree and is working on his second master’s degree – yet he can’t find a full-time job. Veteran unemployment is...
by Moran Zhang | Aug 18, 2011 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – The administration continued its march forward on implementing the nation’s controversial health care law this week, despite legal challenges that almost assure the legality of the reform will be decided by the Supreme Court. Under new rules proposed...
by Dorothy Zhang | Aug 18, 2011 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – The Securities and Exchange Commission does not have the money for the technological tools it needs to monitor the financial markets it is charged with policing under expanded duties outlined in the Dodd-Frank financial reform law, an SEC spokesman said....
by Medill News Service | Aug 18, 2011 | Business & Tech
Washington — The 12-member congressional committee charged with trimming the federal budget over the next 10 years has a new advocate for putting entitlement programs on the chopping block: President Barack Obama. Obama, on a Midwest bus tour this week, said...
by Matt Yurus & Noor Wazwaz | Aug 16, 2011 | Business & Tech, National Security
WASHINGTON–Of the top 20 companies doing work for the federal government, only one has a clean record. It’s a truck manufacturer from Wisconsin, a company that shares the name with the city it’s based in, Oshkosh. Oshkosh Corp. is relatively new to the federal...
