The Senates passed legislation to help create jobs. The bill includes federally subsidized bonds for public works in $20 billion to keep highway building projects going. NPRs David Welna reports it also gives tax breaks to employers who hire the long

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年NPR美国国家公共电台3月

From NPR news in Washington, Im Carl Kasell. The Federal Reserve is expected to announce another cut in interest rates later today, but analysts remain divided on how far the Fed will go. NPRs Dave Mattingly reports. The question on Wall Street isnt

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President Obama today called for a new consumer protection agency as part of his sweeping effort to rewrite the financial rules of the road and avoid future economic meltdowns. NPR's John Ydstie reports. Speaking to an audience in the East Room of th

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It's another sell-off on Wall Street today, the Dow currently down by 267 points, the reason, a dismal jobs report from May. NPR's John Ydstie reports payroll growth has snapped off and the jobless rate has ticked upward. According to the government'

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President Obama is holding separate meetings today with Republican and Democratic congressional leaders, as NPR's Mara Liasson reports, to see if there can be a solution to the impasse over the debt ceiling. The two meetings at the White House will d

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In a landmark development within stem cell research, scientists say theyve used a cloning technique to make embryonic stem cells that match a patients DNA. The journal Nature highlights a study that shows the potential for using the technology to rep

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President Obama is continuing the pressure on House and Republican to approve senate-passed measures that extend payroll tax cut for 2 months. The House needs to pass a short-term version of the compromise then we should negotiate agreement as quickl

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The latest numbers on the housing market show at least a little improvement. The National Association realtor says the sale of existing homes rose 4 percent for the month before. This after association yesterday revised the sale of past 4 years downw

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The US economy adds 120,000 jobs and sends the unemployment rate down sharply at 8.6% in November. NPR's Sonari Glinton reports the Labor Departments data out today shows that while the unemployment rate fell, so did average weekly earnings. This emp

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And since yesterday was the third Monday in January, it was also Martin Luther King Day. For a lot of people, it's a day on, not a day off; a time to give back to their communities. Folks took part in hundreds of service projects across the U.S., fro

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Fridays are awesome, even when it is our last one of this semester. I am Carl Azuz, and you are tuned in the CNN Student News. First up today, a quick check of our headlines. Strike is off, the judge says plans for a walkout by a British Airway's Cab

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let's start with Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky. Oh, boy, can you tell that he and his middle finger are not running for re-election? That's right. He is the one person standing between millions of jobless Americans and their money. He says it's abo

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Shiloh: So, Adria, what do you think about nationalized healthcare in the United States? I know that most Democrats are for it, and most Republicans are against it. So, what do you think? Adria: I think it's really necessary. After, you know, hearing

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LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: One of the most important forces in American politics today is populism. In both the Democratic and Republican races, politicians are tapping into widespread frustrations against the elites and the establishment. NPR's n

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THIS IS AMERICA - Election Day Will Bring Struggle for Power, Direction of USBy Brianna Blake Broadcast: Monday, October 30, 2006 VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And

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THE MAKING OF A NATION - Woodrow Wilson Wins 1912 Presidential ElectionBy Frank Beardsley Broadcast: Thursday, February 23, 2006 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a program in Special Engli

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This is Whats Trending Today There is a saying in America that every vote counts. On Tuesday, in the U.S. state of Virginia, the saying appeared to come true. There were 23,215 votes cast in the city of Newport News on Election Day last month. Voters

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Babies Now Permitted on US Senate Floor Lawmakers in the United States Senate may now bring their young babies with them to work. The Senate voted Wednesday to permit children under the age of one in the chamber while their parents cast votes. The Se

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34 美国参议院的变革 DATE=6/2/01 TITLE=IN THE NEWS #483 - Changes in American Senate BYLINE=Jerilyn Watson (start at 1'06

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Hillary Clinton plans to deliver a scorching assessment of Donald J. Trumps foreign policy prescriptions on Thursday, casting her likely Republican rival as a threat to decades of bipartisan tenets of American diplomacy and declaring him unfit for th

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