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March 14, 2019
As if searching for a way to criticize the late 2017 tax cuts, the broadcasts networks aired a series of panicked reports about tax returns in February. Roughly 80 percent of Americans taxes were cut by the legislation, yet the broadcasts complaints…
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July 9, 2018
The June jobs report was more good news for American job seekers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced July 6, that 213,000 new jobs were added in June.
That was more than economists expected. The prior two months were also revised up, adding…
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May 9, 2017
April marked the lowest unemployment rate in a decade, but that didn’t stop one NBC news show from spending far more time covering jobs being lost to Mexico.
“Hiring picked up,” that month according to CBS Evening News anchor…
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August 2, 2016
Food is so scarce in Venezuela that last week a group of starving people broke into a zoo and killed a horse for food. Burdened by government regulations, Venezuela’s economic crisis and its food shortage are forcing many people to leave their…
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January 25, 2016
2016 was supposedly the “point of no return” for taking action on global warming, according to former Vice President Al Gore. His tipping point received widespread scorn on the right, resulting in an “Armageddon” clock posted…
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November 17, 2011
You can tell people are filling up their cars with gasoline by the scowls on their faces. Nearly three years into Obama-Nation and the term "gas pain" is something that Tums just can't erase.
It's the culmination of the most anti-…
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February 12, 2009
Occasionally, the news media provides justice for a wronged industry or company.
That’s what correspondent Mark Strassmann’s story did on the Feb. 11 “CBS Evening News.” He exposed the repercussions of the recent salmonella…
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December 4, 2008
As the debate over whether taxpayers should fund a bailout of the Big Three U.S. automakers remains front and center on Capitol Hill, foreign auto manufacturers are surviving in the United States, operating without the need…
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November 14, 2008
Gas prices are up: that’s bad. Gas prices are down: that’s even worse. You can’t win either way.
After a series of gas price hardship segments over the last year and a half…
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May 2, 2008
With food inflation growing at an ever-increasing rate, things may be bad. But they aren’t as bad as the “CBS Evening News” made them seem.
Even with the economy at a slow…