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Why Did President Obama Hide Record Small Business Numbers

Posted on September 4, 2010 by Lloyd Chapman

Last Friday, as I predicted in my August 6 and August 24 Huffington Post blogs, the Obama Administration, right on queue, released the latest Small Business Administration (SBA) fiscal year (FY) 2009 Small Business Procurement Scorecard. Anyone in th… Continue reading →

Posted in News, Original Content | Tagged administration, amount, business goals, business numbers, business procurement, contracting, friday afternoon, Huffington, last friday, negative news, percent, Post, procurement, queue, SBA, scorecard, small business administration, technique | Leave a comment

Labor Day History: 11 Facts You Need To Know

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Craig Kanalley

Yes, Monday is a federal holiday in the United States, but Labor Day is much more than that.Labor Day has a rich history centered around workers. This year, it has particular meaning as hundreds of thousands Americans try to get back to work. The lates… Continue reading →

Posted in News, Original Content | Tagged August, Facts, federal holiday, history, holiday, hundreds of thousands, jobless rate, labor day, meaning, Monday, percent, rate, rate numbers, rich history, thousands americans, unemployment, United States, Year | Leave a comment

Play Meditation Like a Video Game

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Chade-Meng Tan

Meditation requires a balance of effort and relaxation. Too much effort makes meditation tiring and unsustainable, while too little effort causes you to lose your grip on your attention. The classical analogy for this balance is having just the right… Continue reading →

Posted in News, Original Content | Tagged balance, breaths, classical analogy, difficulty, five minutes, grip, meditation, percent, playing a game, question, relaxation, sitar, tension, time, video game, way, xbox | Leave a comment

Men’s Wearhouse Launches National Suit Drive To Help Unemployed Men

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Erica Liepmann

On any given night, almost 700,000 people experience homelessness in the U.S. Of that number, an estimated 37 percent are people in families — families who often depend on an unemployed breadwinner and only need simple, short-term help with housing an… Continue reading →

Posted in News, Original Content | Tagged appearance, breadwinner, business, business attire, experience homelessness, job placement, Launches, percent, placement, recession, retailer, stability, Unemployed, unemployed men, Wearhouse | Leave a comment

Is the Grass Greener in Canada?

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Holly Robinson

I was vacationing in Prince Edward Island, Canada this summer when I came across this article in The Globe and Mail: “The World Would Love to Be Canadian.” The writer, Joe Friesen, cites this startling statistic: “Given the choice, 53 percent of adult… Continue reading →

Posted in News, Original Content | Tagged adults, article, Choice, edge, friesen, Globe, globe and mail, grass, Greener, immigrate, percent, prince edward island, prince edward island canada, startling statistic, statistic, summer, teetering on the edge, writer joe | Leave a comment

Stupendous Tropical Rainforests Offer Medicine and Fight Global Warming

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Dr. Reese Halter

The breathtaking luxuriant tropical rainforests occupy about 13 percent of Earth’s surface. These incredibly complex and diverse ecosystems account for half of the known biological diversity (about 800,000 different species), and conservatively there a… Continue reading →

Posted in News, Original Content | Tagged african tropical forest, asian islands, Australasian, biological diversity, coastlands, diversity, earth, forest, forest region, Galapagos Islands, half, Indo, luxuriant, malay peninsula, New, northeast australia, percent, region, surface, tropical forests | Leave a comment

Championing Corporate Social Responsibility

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Shannon Schuyler

A recent op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal by Aneel Karnani has stirred up quite a reaction in the corporate responsibility (CR) community. For those not familiar with the op-ed, Mr. Karnani argues that “the idea of corporate social responsibi… Continue reading →

Posted in News, Original Content | Tagged aneel, business, business strategy, Corporate, corporate responsibility, corporate social responsibility, Everything, governance issues, idea, impact, Journal, karnani, percent, reaction, release cr, Social, social impact, successful company, today, wall street journal | Leave a comment

My Weak Muslim President

Posted on August 31, 2010 by John Feffer

Except for a few residual Know-Nothings, Americans wouldn’t think twice about voting for a Catholic president. In the last election, President Obama abolished the presidential race taboo. And we’re likely to have a woman president in the next decade or… Continue reading →

Posted in News, Original Content | Tagged barrier, bizarre beliefs, Catholic, catholic president, course, election president, evidence, evidence to the contrary, fasting during ramadan, Kim Jong-il, percent, prayer, president, race, race barrier, universal health care, while, willful ignorance, woman, woman president | Leave a comment

Weekly Audit: Why Do Deficit Hawks Hate Social Security?

Posted on August 31, 2010 by The Media Consortium

by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger Last week, Social Security advocates learned something they had long suspected. Arguments for cutting Social Security aren’t really about economics or the deficit. They’re all about waging war on social services… Continue reading →

Posted in News, Original Content | Tagged Alternet, barack obama, CDO, CDOs, deficit hawks, disaster, federal budget deficit, fine shape, media consortium, milk cow, mortgage, nightmare, order, percent, republican senator, retirement, Social, social security advocates, subprime, William Greider | Leave a comment

Please Stop Complaining About the Media’s ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ Coverage

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Dan Abrams

Now that the initial furor has died down, much of the media is quickly coming to a consensus that the debate over building a Muslim community and prayer center two blocks from Ground Zero was overblown. It is/was part of a “summer of fear,” a “ginned u… Continue reading →

Posted in News, Original Content | Tagged consensus, equivalent, ginned up, Ground, ground zero, hysteria, initial furor, media attention, missing girls, Mosque, muslim community, new yorkers, percent, prayer, prayer center, rage, stop, summer of fear, Zero | Leave a comment

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