For the most part, the business community has cheered the president’s appointment of Wall Street banker — and former secretary of commerce — William Daley as the new White House chief of staff. Daley is widely expected to enh…
Led by the health insurance reform law, a flurry of drug and food recalls, key medical breakthroughs and plenty of layoffs and lawsuits, 2010 proved to be an exciting — if not always positive — year. Here’s our rundown of the…
Nearly half of Americans in a recent poll believe China has surpassed America as having the strongest economy in the world, and more than half blame outsourcing and the loss of manufacturing jobs for the shift.
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For the fifth time this year, Congress has voted to postpone steep Medicare pay cuts for doctors. The latest vote gives doctors a year’s reprieve from the 25% pay cut, which some have said would keep them from accepting new Med…
As health-care costs skyrocket, the ranks of uninsured Americans are growing at their fastest rate ever. A new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that 50.7 million people, or 16.7% of the population, h…