By The Admin on October 30, 2009
About 650,000 jobs have been saved or created under President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plan, the White House said Friday, saying it is on track to reach the president’s goal of 3.5 million jobs by the end of next year.
New job numbers from businesses, contractors, state and local governments, nonprofit groups and universities were scheduled [...]
Posted in White House
By The Admin on October 30, 2009
Internal investigations into the conduct of over two dozen House members have been exposed in an extraordinary, Internet-era breach of security involving the secretive process by which Congress polices lawmaker ethics.
Revelations of the mostly preliminary inquiries by the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct—also known as the Ethics committee—and a panel that refers cases [...]
Posted in Congress
By The Admin on October 30, 2009
Ernie Suggs, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- The Southern Christian Leadership Conference on Friday named Bernice King, the daughter of SCLC co-founder Martin Luther King Jr., as its next president.
King, the daughter of SCLC co-founder Martin Luther King Jr., was elected over Arkansas Appeals Court Judge Wendell Griffen.The vote was 23-15.
King will replace the Rev. Byron Clay, who [...]
Posted in Uncategorized
By The Admin on October 30, 2009
Frank Newport, Gallup
- A majority of Americans, 56%, believe that a solution to America’s race-relations problem will eventually be worked out — a figure that is roughly the same as those Gallup found in the years prior to last fall’s historic election of Barack Obama as president.
Responses to this long-standing trend today are almost exactly [...]
Posted in Race
By The Admin on October 30, 2009
Construction can finally begin on the long-delayed Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial slated for the National Mall after the National Park Service issued building permits Thursday for the project.
The memorial was first authorized in 1996. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar joined King’s only surviving sibling, Christine King Farris, and members of the Congressional Black Caucus to [...]
Posted in Federal Government
