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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted on Wednesday to cut food stamps by $ 2 billion a year as part of a wide-ranging farm bill. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
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House passes $638 billion defense bill with new punishments for sex-related crimes in military
Posted by admin on June 14th, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — House passes $ 638 billion defense bill with new punishments for sex-related crimes in military. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
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Posted by admin on June 14th, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has passed a sweeping $ 638 billion defense bill imposing new punishments on military members found guilty of rape or sexual assault. Tweet This Post
IMF approves $1.75 billion loan for Tunisia
Posted by admin on June 7th, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund has approved a $ 1.74 billion loan for Tunisia to ease the country’s economic strains more than two years after the revolution that toppled the former regime. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
What the $5 Billion Threat to College Loans Looks Like
Posted by admin on May 31st, 2013
The latest edition of "Barack Obama Holds an Event with Regular Folks to Try and Get Congress to Do Something" will take place on Friday. The regular folks will be college students; the "something" this time around is preventing a doubling of the interest rate on student loans. Those college students better bring their game [...]
Study: Immigrants contributed $115 billion more to Medicare in last decade than they received
Posted by admin on May 30th, 2013
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Posted in Breaking News Tags: #115, billion, contributed, Decade, Immigrants, last, Medicare, more, Study, than, they received No Comments »Medicare and Medicaid spending projection cut by $900 billion
Posted by admin on May 21st, 2013
Last week’s CBO report popped a big hole in the Austerians’ entitlement cuts balloon. The CBO cut its deficit projection for the next decade by $ 200 billion, with this year’s deficit shrinking to $ 642 billion, the smallest shortfall since 2008. A relatively huge chunk of that decrease—$ 900 billion—is in Medicare and Medicaid [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: $900, billion, Medicaid, Medicare, Projection, spending' No Comments »American Voices: Yahoo Buying Tumblr For $1.1 Billion
Posted by admin on May 20th, 2013
As part of CEO Marissa Mayer’s strategy to expand the company’s social and mobile presence and attract younger users, Yahoo will purchase the popular blogging service Tumblr for $ 1.1 billion in cash. The Onion Tweet This Post
Fannie to Pay U.S. Nearly $60 Billion
Posted by admin on May 10th, 2013
Fannie Mae “will make a $ 59.4 billion dividend payment to the U.S. Treasury, the company said Thursday after reporting a record first-quarter profit,” the Wall Street Journal reports. Tweet This Post
ExxonMobil rakes in $9.5 billion profit, on which it will pay a 13 percent tax rate, if that
Posted by admin on April 27th, 2013
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