UPS Deliveries Up this Holiday Season WNEP ...After 22 years of holiday deliveries, UPS driver Ed Best has a strategy for getting through the most challenging week of the year...
A Busy Week For Post Office, Shipping Companies Hartford Courant ...United Parcel Service said it is projecting that Wednesday will be its busiest day, as last-minute packages are shipped...
$2tn debt crisis threatens to bring down 100 US cities The Guardian ...Overdrawn American cities could face financial collapse in 2011, defaulting on hundreds of billions of dollars of borrowings and derailing the US economic recovery...
60 Minutes' one-sided, GOP-friendly report on state budgets Media Matters ...CBS adopts the Republican framing that deficits are all about spending -- frequently with loaded phrasing like "gold-plated retirement and health care packages." ...
Conservatives growing uncomfortable with GOP blockade of 9/11 health bill The Washington Post ... it's going to get increasingly hard for GOP Senators to maintain their opposition...
The Effect of Falling Home Prices on Small Business Borrowing Cleveland Fed ...Because small business owners may rely heavily on the value of their homes to finance their businesses (through mortgages or home equity lines), the fall in housing prices might be one of the causes of their difficulty...
One-in-Three Working Families Considered ‘Low Income’ Wall Street Journal ... More than 22 million children were part of low-income families last year...
