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Find out more at http://newstrust.net/ Feds failing in duty to protect water from oilsands development Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/450428 http://newstrust.net/stories/450428 <span><a href="/sources/canada_com">Canada.com</a> - By Mike De Souza - Nov. 24 (Special Report) - The Harper government is failing to enforce federal law and exercise its constitutional authority in at least 10 different aspects of monitoring the exploitation of Alberta’s oilsands and its impact on water, says a new report to be released Monday.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/450428">3.1 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/450428">See Review »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/450428">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Water Pollution Oil and Gas Canada Some businesses waste more than £1m a year on excess energy, carbon trading trial finds Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/450429 http://newstrust.net/stories/450429 <span>yorkshirepost.co.uk - By Tom Palmer - Nov. 24 (Special Report) - A PIONEERING carbon trading programme in Yorkshire has revealed some businesses are wasting more than a £1m a year on excess energy and would face six figure fines under future legislation.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/450429">3.0 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/450429">See Review »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/450429">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Energy Pollution Climate Change Op-Ed Columnist: The Phantom Menace Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/446978 http://newstrust.net/stories/446978 <span><a href="/sources/new_york_times">New York Times</a> - By Paul Krugman - Nov. 23 (Opinion) - The scare stories from Wall Street seem to be intimidating Washington from doing more to rescue the economy.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/446978">4.5 average</a> - <a href="/stories/446978">4 Reviews »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/446978">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> U.S. Economy Jobs Finance Scenes from Iowa's recession Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/447665 http://newstrust.net/stories/447665 <span><a href="/sources/desmoines_register">Des Moines Register</a> - By Michael Bugeja - Nov. 23 (Special Report) - They arrive at Gray's Lake Park in the morning, basking on borrowed time of a mild mid-November, realizing the winter can arrive any day like layoffs without warning. They are the unemployed, strolling with friends, partners or retirees, or sometimes alone. Everyone has a story to tell. Everyone knows someone else out of work in what some call "The Second Depression." They are neighbors, acquaintances, family members, colleagues, friends. They may be you. They belong to "The New Poverty," people who followed the rules, paid bills and mortgages on time and whose lives were scuttled by Ponzi and subprime schemes happening far away.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/447665">3.8 average</a> - <a href="/stories/447665">5 Reviews »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/447665">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> U.S. Economy Fed under fire as public anger mounts Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/447260 http://newstrust.net/stories/447260 <span><a href="/sources/associated_press">Associated Press</a> - By Tom Raum - Nov. 23 (News Analysis) - Suddenly the Federal Reserve is everybody's punching bag. Strip the Fed of its bank regulation powers, some in Congress are demanding. Get probing audits of its behind-the-scenes operations, others say. The chairman of the Federal Reserve Board is always fair game for criticism and second-guessing, usually over interest rate actions. But this year the criticism is much broader as Congress responds to widespread public anger that the Fed bailed out Wall Street but not ordinary Americans, and with unemployment in double digits.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/447260">3.4 average</a> - <a href="/stories/447260">3 Reviews »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/447260">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Finance Money U.S. Economy Lessons From the Japanese: Time to Stop Borrowing Money and Start Printing It Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/449607 http://newstrust.net/stories/449607 <span><a href="/sources/truthout">TruthOut</a> - By Ellen Hodgson Brown - Nov. 23 (Opinion) - Miners used to keep canaries in coal mines as an early warning device. If the air was so bad that it killed the canary, the miners would soon be next. Japan may be the canary for the out-of-control deficit spending policies now being pursued in the United States and the United Kingdom.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/449607">Not rated yet</a> - <a href="/stories/449607">See Info »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/449607">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> U.S. Economy Japan Naomi Klein on Climate Debt: Why Rich Countries Should Pay Reparations To Poor Countries For The Climate Crisis Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/450156 http://newstrust.net/stories/450156 <span><a href="/sources/democracy_now">Democracy Now</a> - By Naomi Klein, Amy Goodman - Nov. 23 (Interview) - With the Copenhagen climate summit two weeks away, best-selling journalist Naomi Klein examines the grass-roots movement behind the climate debate proposal that argues all the costs associated with adapting to a more hostile ecology—everything from building stronger sea walls to switching to cleaner, more expensive technologies—are the responsibility of the countries that created the crisis. Klein also discusses the 10th anniversary of the Seattle WTO protests and the 10th anniversary of her first book, “No Logo.”</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/450156">3.8 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/450156">See Review »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/450156">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Climate Change Environment Money Bio-fuel growth raises concerns about forests Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/446534 http://newstrust.net/stories/446534 <span><a href="/sources/seattle_times">Seattle Times</a> - By John Flesher - Nov. 23 (News Report) - Forests are a treasure trove of limbs and bark that can be made into alternative fuels and some worry the increasing trend of using that logging debris will make those materials too scarce, harming the woodlands. For centuries, forests have provided</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/446534">3.6 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/446534">See Reviews »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/446534">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Energy Green Technology The Cost of Dying Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/449709 http://newstrust.net/stories/449709 <span><a href="/sources/cbs_news">CBS News</a> - By Steve Kroft - Nov. 23 (Special Report) - Every medical study ever conducted has concluded that 100 percent of all Americans will eventually die. This comes as no great surprise, but the amount of money being spent at the very end of people's lives probably will. Last year, Medicare paid $50 billion just for doctor and hospital bills during the last two months of patients' lives - that's more than the budget of the Department of Homeland Security or the Department of Education. And it has been estimated that 20 to 30 percent of these medical expenditures may have had no meaningful impact. Most of the bills are paid for by the federal government with few or no questions asked. You might think this would be an obvious thing for Congress and the president to address as they try to reform health care. But what used to be a bipartisan issue has become a politically explosive one - a perfect example of the costs that threaten to bankrupt the country and how hard it's going to be to rein them in</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/449709">4.1 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/449709">See Review »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/449709">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Health Care U.S. Economy Medicare Volunteers Log Off as Wikipedia Ages Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/446943 http://newstrust.net/stories/446943 <span><a href="/sources/wall_street_journal">Wall Street Journal</a> - By Julia Angwin, Geoffrey A. Fowler - Nov. 23 (News Report) - (Subscription required) Wikipedia.org is losing unprecedented numbers of the millions of online volunteers who write, edit and police the world's fifth-most-popular Web site.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/446943">3.8 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/446943">See Review »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/446943">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Technology Internet Social Networks Journalism A Coming Food Crisis? Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/447482 http://newstrust.net/stories/447482 <span><a href="/sources/npr">National Public Radio</a> - By Daniel Costello - Nov. 23 (News Analysis) - After decades of decline, the number of undernourished people around the world has risen 20% since the middle of the last decade and the trend is expected to continue for many years even with a new global intervention.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/447482">Not rated yet</a> - <a href="/stories/447482">See Info »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/447482">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Hunger Food Global Economy Rep. David Obey Warns President Obama of Afghanistan War Surtax Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/447276 http://newstrust.net/stories/447276 <span><a href="/sources/abc_news">ABC News</a> - By Jonathan Karl - Nov. 23 (Interview) - The powerful chairman of the House Appropriations Committee has a stark message for President Obama about Afghanistan -- sending more troops would be a mistake that could "wipe out every initiative we have to rebuild the economy."</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/447276">3.9 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/447276">See Reviews »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/447276">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> U.S. House of Representatives Afghanistan Taxes Weighing Jobs and Deficit Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/445531 http://newstrust.net/stories/445531 <span><a href="/sources/wall_street_journal">Wall Street Journal</a> - By Elizabeth Williamson - Nov. 23 (News Report) - The White House is lukewarm about proposals by congressional Democrats to introduce broad legislation to create jobs, instead favoring targeted measures that would be less likely to inflate the deficit, administration officials said. There is as yet no agreement within the White House or in Congress on how to try to curb the U.S. jobless rate. But the differences in opinion suggest that rifts could emerge among Democrats as they wrestle with how to beat back the highest unemployment rate in a generation.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/445531">3.0 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/445531">See Review »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/445531">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> U.S. Economy Jobs U.S. White House Obey wants 'war surtax' to fund Afghan effort - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/447801 http://newstrust.net/stories/447801 <span><a href="/sources/the_hill">The Hill</a> - By Michael O'Brien - Nov. 23 (News Report) - Any troop increase for Afghanistan should come with a "war surtax" on high income Americans, a top House chairman said Monday. Rep. David Obey (D-Wisc.), the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, warned that if President Barack Obama decides to send additional troops to Afghanistan, it should be funded with the new tax."If we have to pay for the healthcare bill, we should pay for the war as well," Obey told ABC News in an interview.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/447801">3.5 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/447801">See Review »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/447801">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Money and Politics Taxes War Unrest mounts as China mine death rises Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/448538 http://newstrust.net/stories/448538 <span>Manila Times - Nov. 23 (News Report) - Relatives of victims angrily demanded answers Monday as hopes of finding more survivors after China’s worst mining disaster for two years took a blow with the death toll rising to 104. Rescuers recovered 12 more bodies, a spokesman for the mine in northeastern China’s Heilongjiang province said, leaving four miners still unaccounted for after the weekend blast.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/448538">3.0 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/448538">See Review »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/448538">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Labor Coal China Advocacy Groups May Reshape Message During Holidays Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/443059 http://newstrust.net/stories/443059 <span><a href="/sources/new_york_times">New York Times</a> - By Katharine Q. Seeleye - Nov. 22 (News Analysis) - The Senate debate on health care, set to begin the week after Thanksgiving, is now on course to collide with the holiday season. One question for advocacy groups on all sides will be whether to keep up their barrage of pointed commercials, even as chestnuts roast and stockings are hung.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/443059">3.3 average</a> - <a href="/stories/443059">4 Reviews »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/443059">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Advertising Lobbying Health Care Is There Such a Thing as Agro-Imperialism? Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/442609 http://newstrust.net/stories/442609 <span><a href="/sources/new_york_times">New York Times</a> - By Andrew Rice - Nov. 22 (Special Report) - Fearing food shortages, investors from wealthy countries are snapping up land in poor countries to grow food there. Is this development or exploitation?</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/442609">4.1 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/442609">See Review »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/442609">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Food Farming Global Economy Poverty Dislocated in America Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/437245 http://newstrust.net/stories/437245 <span><a href="/sources/st_louis_post_dispatch">St. Louis Post-Dispatch</a> - Nov. 21 (Editorial) - What may be occurring is a seismic shift in the American economy, one that could leave as many as one in four Americans permanently unemployed or so drastically underemployed that he or she can’t make ends meet. That’s the situation today. The greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression has resulted in the greatest social dislocation since the Great Depression.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/437245">3.9 average</a> - <a href="/stories/437245">3 Reviews »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/437245">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> U.S. Economy Poverty Jobs Housing Obama Aims to Allay Auto Lobby Concern on Korea Trade Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/437216 http://newstrust.net/stories/437216 <span><a href="/sources/bloomberg">Bloomberg</a> - By Edwin Chen, Julianna Goldman - Nov. 21 (News Report) - President Barack Obama said he is committed to pushing through a free trade agreement with South Korea that has been stalled by the U.S. auto lobby and unions, who argue it doesn’t do enough to open up Korean markets. Obama’s joint press conference in Seoul today with South Korean counterpart Lee Myung Bak was a last chance on his four- nation Asia trip to show he opposes protectionism. The accord has been held up in Congress, where lawmakers are demanding wider access for Chrysler Group LLC, Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co. Lee said today he is willing to reopen talks on the auto industry.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/437216">3.1 average</a> - <a href="/stories/437216">3 Reviews »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/437216">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Cars North Korea Transportation Lobbying Obama Administration How Stimulating Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/437284 http://newstrust.net/stories/437284 <span><a href="/sources/washington_monthly">Washington Monthly</a> - By Steve Benen - Nov. 21 (Comment) - Republican critics of the economic recovery efforts, when they're not taking credit for the money that's benefiting their state/district, take it as a given that the stimulus "failed." For the right, it's a foregone conclusion, hardly worth discussing anymore. The New York Times reminds us today that "dispassionate analysts" agree that a fair look at the stimulus package shows that it may be "messy" but it's also "working."</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/437284">4.3 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/437284">See Reviews »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/437284">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> U.S. Economy Money U.S. Budget Jobs U.S. Congress The real reason Obama is not making much progress Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/431033 http://newstrust.net/stories/431033 <span><a href="/sources/the_independent">The Independent</a> - By Johann Hari - Nov. 20 (Opinion) - So far, Obama has tried to co-opt the corporations into his agenda by ensuring they will profit from any changes, but this inevitably waters down the proposals, often to the point of uselessness. The Cap and Trade legislation before Congress, for example, will barely limit carbon emissions at all because it has been gutted to please the polluters.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/431033">4.2 average</a> - <a href="/stories/431033">10 Reviews »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/431033">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Obama Administration Lobbying Election Reform Corruption Money and Politics Oil and Gas Coal Easy Choices Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/440725 http://newstrust.net/stories/440725 <span>OurFuture.org - By Terrance Heath - Nov. 20 (Opinion) - I'll say it again. Whether it's Sarah Palin's self-serving contradictions, or Democrats' and Republicans' cynical political compromises, in the realm of politics, the choices we make for others are the truly easy choices.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/440725">4.5 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/440725">See Review »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/440725">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Democratic Party Republican Party Women Obama Administration Sarah Palin Health Care Insurance U.S. Congress Economic Crisis Is Getting Bloody Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/440251 http://newstrust.net/stories/440251 <span><a href="/sources/alternet">AlterNet</a> - By Nick Turse - Nov. 20 (Opinion) - Despite ever rosier economic predictions and a surging stock market, the body count from the economic crisis is destined only to grow in the weeks and months ahead. In 2007, Jason Rodriguez was fired from his position at an Orlando, Florida engineering firm and ended up taking a job as a "sandwich artist" at a Subway restaurant. His salary was cut nearly in half and his debts mounted until, last May, he filed for bankruptcy, listing his assets at just over $4,600 and his liabilities at nearly $90,000. Although he lived only 30 minutes away, according to his former mother-in-law, America Holloway, Rodriguez barely saw his son. When the boy asked why his father didn't visit, Holloway said Rodriguez told him: "'Because I don't have any money. I don't have a job. I don't have anything to eat. When things get better, I'll come see you.'"</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/440251">3.5 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/440251">See Review »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/440251">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> U.S. Economy Jobs Senate girds for Saturday vote and long battle on health care Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/433179 http://newstrust.net/stories/433179 <span><a href="/sources/mcclatchy">McClatchy</a> - By David Lightman - Nov. 20 (News Report) - The Senate Thursday began what promises to be a bitter, lengthy battle over the future of health care in America, and taxes, abortion, affordability and federal deficits emerged as key flashpoints.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/433179">3.4 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/433179">See Reviews »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/433179">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Health Care U.S. Congress Taxes Abortion An American Catastrophe Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/445782 http://newstrust.net/stories/445782 <span><a href="/sources/new_york_times">New York Times</a> - By Bob Herbert - Nov. 20 (Opinion) - Detroit and its environs are suffering the agonies of the economic damned because of policies, crafted at the highest national and corporate levels, that resulted in the implosion of crucially important components of America’s manufacturing base. Those decisions have had a profound effect on the fortunes not just of Detroit, or even Michigan, but the entire U.S. economy.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/445782">3.9 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/445782">See Review »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/445782">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> U.S. Economy Jobs Trade Finance