Denver, Colorado
Under a bill signed by President Barack Obama in September, Denver is a “very strong candidate” for a new satellite patent office. John Bryson, the newly confirmed secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, announced the news Wednesday during a Colorado visit.
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The dots in the campaign’s logo reate a “21st-century brand”.
“United States of Awesome Possibilities” – The tagline for a new ad campaign designed to promote the U.S. of A., an effort to boost business and leisure travel in order to spur economic growth, Advertising Age reports.
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LifeGoesStrong.com poll found a baby boom generation planning to work into retirement years.
So much for baby boomers and their dreams of retirement from kicking back at the lake house ot long afternoons of golf. For many boomers, the plan now calls for logging more hours at the office and renewed worries about money, according to a new poll.
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If the Luddite Fallacy were true, we would all be out of work by now.
There is a tale told about Henry Ford II showing Walter Reuther, the veteran leader of the United Automobile Workers, around a newly automated car plant. “Walter, how are you going to get those robots to pay your union dues,” gibed the boss of Ford Motor Company. Reuther replied, “Henry, how are you going to get them to buy your cars?”
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1 in 15 people are among America’s poorest.
The number of America’s poorest poor have climbed to a record high — 1 in 15 people — spread widely across metropolitan areas as the housing bust pushed many inner-city poor into suburbs and other outlying places and shriveled jobs and income.
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The gross national debt will reach 100% of the economy in November 2011.
A reprieve won this week for the Obama administrationfrom some particularly scary economic news that had been projected to occur around Halloween.
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“Manny” Travis McGowin
In 2009, Greg Carroll’s boss asked him to slash his 500-person staff by half, so Greg left his executive chef job. Since then, Carroll has done some catering, some consulting and some cooking in private homes. But full-time work has proven elusive.
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The number of Americans who lack access to basic necessities like food and health care is now higher than it was at the peak of the Great Recession, a survey released Thursday found. And in a finding that could worsen fears of U.S. decline, the share of Americans struggling to put food on the table is now three times as large as the share of the Chinese population in the same position.
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Not even a college degree is going to help much.
Is this the New Normal? Incomes have fallen since the new millennium began and aren’t expected to catch up until 2021, according to a Wall Street Journal survey of economists’ forecasts.
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The U.S. birth rate has fallen sharply since hitting a high in 2007.
There is further evidence to add to the theory that the nation’s economic hard times have caused some families to delay having kids, according to a new report.
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More money is spent on health insurance but less money is spent on care.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers show more money is being spent on health insurance but less on care. Americans are spending more money on insurance premiums, and they’re spending less out of pocket on health services. The trend doesn’t reflect patients getting more health coverage for their insurance money, experts say. It reflects patients, even those with insurance, avoiding spending cash on health care they think can be put off.
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Americans will spend more than $50 billion on their animals this year.
Mary Louise Mills has a says her three dogs are spoiled rotten 9-year-old shih tzu named Annie Lulu after Mills’ grandmother, and two Pekingese — 7-year-old Miss Daisy May and 4-year-old Elmer, whom she sometimes calls Fudd. And she says her all three of her dogs are spoiled rotten.
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