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Arnold Schwarzenegger Seeks Return to Hollywood
By Carla Baranauckas - Politics DailyWe all know the catchphrase that has been associated with Arnold Schwarzenegger since he starred in the 1984 movie "The Terminator." He even committed it to concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood when his handprints and footprints were enshrined there as a major star of major motion pictures. Now those words may apply to him again. Schwarzenegger may return to the big screen. With the exception of some cameo roles like the one in the 2010 movie "The Expendables," Schwarzenegger has not had parts in any movies since he was elected governor of California in October 2003. In recent ...
A Country in Crisis and a Tone Deaf Government
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In Hard Times, States Still Spend to Protect Farms
By not in system - AOL NewsHAMDEN, Conn. -- Despite tough financial times following the worst recession in decades, some states continue to spend millions of dollars to preserve American farmland and stem its rapid loss to development and suburban sprawl. Advocates say the preservation efforts are needed to ensure food is available locally if the national distribution system is ever disrupted. They also say it helps maintain a way of life important to many Americans. Twenty-five states have farmland preservation programs, and nearly half of them are in the densely populated Northeast, where the loss of fields ...
Photographer Captures Upside of Recession
By David Moye - AOL NewsThe recession was hard on a lot of people, but one Los Angeles photographer has found great personal satisfaction documenting the positive effects the recession has had on people. She's Remy Haynes, and the inspiration to show the good things that can happen during bad times came during a downtime in her career doing ads for companies such as Microsoft, AT&T and Verizon. "During the summer of 2009, work became slow," she told AOL News. "Even worse, I felt uncreative. A lot of my friends were depressed, and I realized it's up to me to figure out what I'm going to do." Remy ...
Secret Santa Pays Widow's Electric Bill
By Susanna Baird - AOL NewsJust like good little girls and boys around the world, the employees of Socorro Electric Cooperative start looking for Santa come December. When she arrived this holiday season, she was even more generous than usual. A female customer who prefers anonymity drops by the New Mexico electric company every Christmastime and donates $100 towards the account of a struggling elderly customer behind on his or her payments. Employees of the company pick out the recipient; Secret Santa never sees them, and they never find out who she is. When Santa arrived for her annual donation, employees told her ...
99ers and the Bum's Rush
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Why Aren't US Teens Having Babies So Much Anymore?
By Nathaniel Jones - AOL NewsIs abstinence the new normal? The teen pregnancy rate hit a record low in 2009, according to new data just released by the National Center for Health Statistics. The birth rate last year fell to 39.1 births per 1,000 teens, a decrease of 6 percent from 2008. What's keeping America's teens childless? Surge Desk takes a look at a few of the competing explanations. No one's having babies at any age American teens could just be emulating their older role models; hardly anyone had babies in 2009. Birth rates also fell for women in their early 20s and for women in their late 20s and early ...
Michael Bloomberg Decries Partisanship, Calls for Centrist Government
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyMichael Bloomberg is mad as hell and he's not going to take it anymore. That's the gist of a sharply worded speech New York's mayor gave Wednesday attacking partisanship in Washington and calling for government to "chart a middle way" out of the ongoing recession. Slamming lawmakers who revel in political posturing but offer no solutions, Bloomberg put forth an ambitious plan for stimulating the economy -- calling for tax cuts for business, better trade agreements, more funding for job training and fundamental changes to regulations, The New York Times reported. "Last month, voters turned ...
TARP Price Tag Down to $25 Billion, CBO Finds
By David Knowles - AOL News(Nov. 29) -- Talk about bang for your buck! The Congressional Budget Office said today that the final price tag for the Troubled Asset Relief Program would total $25 billion when all is said and done. Considering that the U.S. government originally plunked down $700 billion to help rescue the nation's teetering financial system, the new estimate comes as a welcome surprise. As the nation's largest banks began paying back the federal government with interest for the loans, the amount owed the taxpayers has slowly dwindled away over the past two years. As for the outstanding balance, the CBO ...
There's No Shortage of People Who Need Help This Thanksgiving
By Joann M. Weiner - Politics DailyAs Americans prepare to sit down for their Thanksgiving meal, plenty of them will wonder what they have to be thankful for. America is one of the richest countries in the world, and that's something to take pride in. But could any American be anything but ashamed that one out of seven Americans lives in poverty, or 44 million citizens are hungry at one time or another every year, or that the number of food stamp users rose to 41.8 million in July, marking the 20th straight month of record participation? One out of four unemployed workers is now officially classified as "long-term ...
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