Obama pledges $100M to Haiti for aid

U.S. President Barack Obama said $100 million would be available immediately to provide equipment, food, water and medicine to earthquake-ravaged Haiti. "This investment will grow over the coming year as we embark on the long-term recovery from this unimaginable tragedy," Obama said. The first w...

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The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) released a new study, Immigration and Wages, which confirms what many other economists have found: "that immigration has a small but positive impact on the wages of native-born workers overall." The report, by economist Heidi Shierholz, finds that the "effect of i...

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Beasley Allen Attorneys Investigating Toyota Unintended Acceleration Cases

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