Washington's embargo against Cuba also has an impact on the United States economy and prevents millions of U.S. citizens from benefiting from Cuban medical progress, according to a report released by the Cuban foreign ministry.
A cynical few are saying the estate tax hurts African Americans in some disproportionate way. But they’re overlooking common-sense wealth planning. Here’s the deceptive reasoning behind their statement. It’s harder for African Americans to become millionaires (true), so the estate tax hits black entrepreneurs especially hard, forcing them to sell family businesses to pay the tax. Untrue.
The cost of U.S. health care has climbed 43 percent over the past nine years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This price increase is close to double the over-all inflation rate of 26 percent in the same nine years.
Ten Nobel Peace Prize laureates called for world peace Saturday and took direct aim at the United States, asking an enthusiastic crowd of 7,000 youth to demand the U.S. pull back its military, spread its wealth and offer aid to developing countries.
Members of the U.S. Congress spent the summer touring the United States in what they said was an effort to find common ground on the difficult choices involved in fixing America's broken immigration system. Talking to Americans might help legislators take the temperature of voters on a tough and divisive election issue. But it adds little to Congress's understanding, or the American public's, of the larger forces driving contemporary migration - and of the debates and lessons learned from around the world.
The world once looked to the United States as a beacon of good governance, George Soros believes. But in the five years since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks the nation has lost its way, the international financier asserts in his latest book.
In the world's biggest economy, one in eight Americans and almost one in four blacks lived in poverty last year, the U.S. Census Bureau said on Tuesday, both ratios virtually unchanged from 2004.
