Archive for the ‘ Politics ’ Category

How Does Unemployment Work?

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 - By Ask Deb

How Does Unemployment Work? These days plenty of people are dealing with unemployment. To wrap our heads around the concept of unemployment we need to define the word itself. People think the word “unemployment” simply means being out of work. This is not totally true, at least not as far as the government is concerned. Unemployment applies to people who are currently out of work

Wal-Mart for President

Thursday, January 21st, 2010 - By Ask Deb

Supreme Court Ends Limits on Corporate Campaign Contributions A strongly divided Supreme Court voted today to end Federal limits on campaign spending by big corporations. The Court voted 5-4 in favor of ending limits placed on campaign contributions by both big business and worker unions. Sure, I know the Supreme Court is tilted to the right, but I never thought I’d see a Supreme Court,