The Recovery Act wasn’t a silver bullet, but it’s very good policy. It cut taxes for 95% of working families to give them a leg up as they fight to get by. It invested in our nation’s infrastructure and clean energy. it gave tax breaks to small businesses to help hire workers.

The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center announces ambitious plans to raise $1 billion for cancer research by the end of 2011-the institution’s 70th anniversary year. With more than $760 million in philanthropy already raised from volunteers and corporate supporters, M. D. Anderson is reaching out to the public with Making Cancer History®: The Campaign to Transform Cancer Care. 



We know the statistics. Nearly one in five American workers is unemployed or underemployed. That means wages are losing ground. One in three homes with a mortgage is under water. Millions of Americans are headed to losing their homes.

President Barack Obama will propose nearly doubling the child-care tax credit for middle-class families on Monday, according to a White House statement.

Americans have donated over $275 million dollars to the Haiti relief efforts but money isn’t the only thing you can give. Here are some ideas on how to help out if you don’t have readily available cash.

A record number of state and federal elected officials will roll up their sleeves to serve local communities across the country tomorrow, Monday, January 18, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service.

This whole push to remove Christ from the Christmas season has gotten so ridiculous that it’s pathetic.

Lets face it, it wasn’t that long ago when Blacks had to use different restroom facilities, back entrance to food establishments, denied entry to white schools, was hung or jailed for whistling at white women, denied the right to vote, and subjected to illegal syphilis contamination. Here we have a Black President attempting to introduce Health Care Reform to all Americans, something the Republicans didn’t even mention during their 8 years in power.

The House plans to vote Wednesday on measures that would extend the safety net for the unemployed and spur job creation.

Medicare Buy In For Older Americans As I mentioned in an email earlier today, it appears that a compromise on the health care bill is taking shape in the United States Senate.

The invitation contained everything you needed to know to have fun.
Well, almost everything…

You knew the date and time and where to be. You knew who was throwing this shindig. But the invite didn’t say a word about what to wear.

Tonight was an exciting night for our country. I am proud of the Senate for moving health insurance reform forward by voting to proceed with full debate. Congratulations to Senator Reid and the Senate Democrats who have always been up to the challenge of accomplishing this historic goal.