Dream ACT. In a maneuver that combines election-year posturing with legislative hardball, Senate Democrats will try to add a long-stalled immigration provision that would put hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants on a path toward U.S.
Oil Spill. The federal government declared BP’s Macondo oil well dead on Sunday, nearly five months after it blew out of control, unleashing an environmental calamity in the Gulf of Mexico.
Millenium Development Goals. Sub-Saharan Africa will not reduce poverty and hunger and improve child and maternal healthcare to meet the goals set a decade ago by the United Nations unless African and Western leaders do much more, several recent reports suggest.
Quote of the day. “There are these fears in the background, and they are suppressed. I have had nightmares about becoming a bag lady. It could happen to anyone. So many people are so close to it, and they don’t even realize it.” Patricia Reid, one of 2.2 million unemployed people over 55 years old, who worry that they may never find a job again. (New York Times)
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