POTUS News: President Barack Obama is pitching his jobs plan in North Carolina, visiting a business that the White House says would benefit from the proposals he’s been pressing Congress to pass right away. Obama was to appear Wednesday in the Raleigh-Durham area to tour a machine company and give his third speech in as many days, highlighting the help he says his plan would extend to small businesses. Read more here.
The Top 3 States In The USA With The Highest Poverty Rates Are Deep Red States With Republican Governors & Senators News: New Census data shows that Georgia’s poverty rate was the third highest in the country in 2010, up two spots from last year, with more than 1.8 million residents counted among the poor. The only states with higher poverty rates in 2010 were Louisiana and Mississippi. Nationally, 15.1 percent of Americans were living in poverty last year. Read more here.
We Have To Do Better Y’all. This Disease Is Preventable News: The number of people living with diabetes has soared to 366 million, and the disease kills one person every seven seconds, posing a “massive challenge” to healthcare systems worldwide, experts said on Tuesday. The vast majority of those with the disease have Type 2 — the kind linked to poor diet, obesity and lack of exercise — and the problem is spreading as people in the developing world adopt more Western lifestyles. Read more here.
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Hold Up, Canada- Pump Yo Brakes News: The federal government vowed Wednesday to go to bat for Canadian exporters facing another round of protectionist hurdles in the United States because of Buy American provisions in President Barack Obama’s $447 billion (U.S.) jobs bill. “History has shown protectionist measures stall growth and kill jobs,” International Trade Minister Ed Fast declared, adding that the issue is all the more pressing at a time of uncertain economic conditions. “Our government will raise with the Obama Administration and Congress concerns regarding measures that impede access for Canadian workers and businesses to the U.S. market, as we did for earlier U.S. stimulus programs,” he said in a statement. Read more here..
Contagion Movie = Real Life News: When Anna Watterson lost more than 20 pounds and developed a cough she couldn’t shake, she was afraid she’d caught some mysterious disease. After repeated visits to the doctor and months of being sick in 2004, the London barrister was finally diagnosed with drug-resistant tuberculosis. She isn’t sure where she caught it — either traveling in India years before or living in northwest London, a tuberculosis hotspot — but experts say patients like Watterson are increasingly common across Europe. Read more here.I Guess This Is News Because YT People Are Doing It Now News: There’s been talk of people sharing homes during the recession, and now the Census Bureau has released the data to prove it. This spring, there were 21.8 million “doubled-up” households across the nation, a 10.7 percent increase from the 19.7 million households in the spring of 2007, the Census Bureau said. That means 18.3 percent of all households were combined households. Read more here.
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