by Kate Shepherd | Apr 27, 2011 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON— The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is saving millions of federal dollars by moving to Google applications. The Internal Revenue Service has saved hundreds of millions of dollars through online filing. Such technology advances are key to saving...
by Charles Mead | Apr 27, 2011 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — The average American may be paying 36 percent more for a gallon of gas than he or she did last year, but Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will likely tell reporters on Wednesday that prices in the U.S. are under control. That’s because the...
by Kate Shepherd | Apr 25, 2011 | Business & Tech, Faith, Ethics + Spirituality
WASHINGTON – Some religious leaders have a message for Congress: Use Christian principles to solve the deficit problem and produce a “moral budget” that does not hurt the nation’s poor. Two Christian groups, the Center for Public Justice and Evangelicals for Social...
by Charles Mead | Apr 21, 2011 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — Debt-ridden European nations such as Greece may need further access to bailout funds as European officials maintain that default is a non-starter. “Restructuring the debt is not an option that is on the table,” Joao Vale de Almeida, the...
by Kate Shepherd | Apr 21, 2011 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — Unless the U.S. acts soon to make more of the electromagnetic spectrum available to wireless companies, the country could face a serious lag in global competition, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski said Wednesday. Dropped cell...
by Kate Shepherd | Apr 19, 2011 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON–The nation’s debt has become an increasingly important issue in the minds of Americans, and President Barack Obama is pushing his plan to solve the deficit and ease the debt crisis by going directly to Americans with his message. Obama addressed...
