Free business ideas
When news outlets reported last week that unemployment figures in the United States had reached double digits for the first time in 26 years (10.2 percent, or 15.7 million Americans out of work), it became clear that we now have to respond much more imaginatively to the recession. Full Story
The bankers and the bureaucrats
Members of AIG’s financial-products unit should take heart. Yes, Obama administration pay czar Kenneth Feinberg is coming down on them with the awesome power of his czardom, dictating that their pay not exceed $200,000 a year. Full Story
The pill mill epidemic
GUEST OPINION
The abuse of prescription drugs, and the illegal black market that has developed for them, is a spreading epidemic. This is a vastly underreported story.
According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, nearly 7 million Americans are abusing prescription drugs. That’s more than the number who abuse heroin, cocaine, Ecstasy and hallucinogens combined. Full Story
MOMENTS IN TIME
. On Nov. 12, 1954,
Ellis Island, the gateway to America, shuts it doors after processing more than 12 million immigrants since opening in 1892. Today, an estimated 40 percent of all Americans can trace their roots through Ellis Island, named for merchant Samuel Ellis, who owned the land in the 1770s. Full Story
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