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  • Unemployment Prompts Online Training Challenging Colleges: Jobs

    Acupuncturist Courtney Wallace was struggling to pay off $60,000 in student debt. Seeking more lucrative work through tapping skills she’d learned as a kid building websites, she went to TrainSignal Inc., which provides web-based computer training for $49 a month. A month later, she was hired as a systems specialist at a consulting company in Chicago.

  • Bachmann House Retirement Plan Tea Party Turning Point

    U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann’s decision to leave Congress marks a changing guard in the anti-tax Tea Party movement as it girds for its next battle later this year over an increase in the nation’s debt ceiling.

  • Cook Defending Apple Puts Loophole-Closing Back on Agenda

    A congressional hearing into Apple Inc.’s use of offshore tax shelters called attention to how U.S. companies lower their taxes, and underscored the difficulty Congress confronts when trying to end the practice.

  • DeMint Exits Senate as Conservative Brand Weakens

    Republican U.S. Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina, a champion of fiscal conservatives in Congress who has clashed with his party’s leaders, said he will leave in the middle of his term to lead the Heritage Foundation.

  • Sanford Won’t Gain Plum Posts in Return to U.S. House

    Mark Sanford, the South Carolina Republican governor disgraced by lying to conceal an extramarital affair, has staged a political comeback and will be sworn in as the newest U.S. House member this week.

  • DeMint Exits Senate as Conservative Brand Weakens

    Republican U.S. Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina, a champion of fiscal conservatives in Congress who has clashed with his party’s leaders, said he will leave in the middle of his term to lead the Heritage Foundation.

  • Author of Heritage Report on Immigration Plan Resigns

    The Heritage Foundation said one of the authors of a report released this week criticizing a bipartisan Senate plan to revise U.S. immigration laws has resigned.

  • Soaring Rate of Immigrant Parents Imperils Overhaul Boon

    Robert Liang and his wife, Alice, are living arguments for backers of an immigration-law revision: Though undocumented, they’re hardworking small-business owners who don’t want government help. The immigrants from Taiwan also embody an argument for its opponents: They’re older than 50.

  • Immigration Plan Assailed in New Attack on Cost by DeMint

    The most significant revision of U.S. immigration laws in a generation will come under a new line of attack for its potential costs to public programs including Social Security and Medicare.

  • Rumsfeld, Cheney Trade Shots, Charm Podesta: D.C. Scene

    “Obviously, I get to speak first since I was the best secretary of defense,” joked former Vice President Dick Cheney, while introducing Donald Rumsfeld at a book party last night.

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