by Charbel Lebbos | Aug 8, 2022 | Local Economy, Local News
Democrats pushed their election-year economic package to Senate passage Sunday, a hard-fought compromise less ambitious than President Joe Biden’s original domestic vision but one that still meets deep-rooted party goals of slowing global warming, moderating...
by Charbel Lebbos | Jul 13, 2022 | Local Economy
Inflation hit a new peak in June. U.S. consumer prices soared 9.1% in a year, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday, the fastest pace since 1981. Price spikes for gasoline, housing and food drove last month’s hot inflation. Food costs increased...
by Charbel Lebbos | Jul 7, 2022 | Local Economy
President Joe Biden said Wednesday during a Cleveland stop touting a Democratic-backed fix to multiemployer pension funds that social security, Medicare and Medicaid could be in jeopardy if Republicans take back control of Congress and the White House. During an...
by Charbel Lebbos | Jul 6, 2022 | Local Economy, Local News
Lebanon’s private sector activity improved in June to the highest levels since January 2016 on slower declines in output and new orders, while employment rose at its fastest pace since February 2018. The Blom Lebanon Purchasing Managers’ Index rose to...
by Charbel Lebbos | Apr 6, 2022 | Local Economy, Local News
Muziwokuthula Madonda, 44, was sentenced to life in prison for the 2011 slaying of Jaclyn Hilder. (Summit County Jail) AKRON, Ohio — A 44-year-old South African man guilty of slayings in New Mexico and accused of another murder in Ohio was sentenced Monday to life in...
by Charbel Lebbos | Mar 10, 2022 | Local Economy, Local News
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House approved a massive spending bill Wednesday night that would rush $13.6 billion in U.S. aid to battered Ukraine and its European allies, after top Democrats were forced to abruptly drop their plan to include fresh funds to battle COVID-19....
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