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Student loan debt weighs on U.S. economy
you think about it, you're starting out in a career, you're trying to build a career, trying to buy a house, get a car, get on a pathway toward your life. if you have that overhang of debt, it harder to do that. if you have trouble getting a job, you end up in default and can't get a mortgage for many years. the challenge is for these young graduates is can they become fully ...
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First Read Minute Competency in Question
NBC's Mark Murray and Domenico Montanaro discuss the controversies surrounding the White House and whether the question of competency could damage Democrats, especially if Republicans use the argument that the government is too ...
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Blunt Unlikely Cincinnati IRS workers decided federal government policy
Republican Sen. Roy Blunt joins Chuck Todd to discuss the latest surrounding the IRS story, Benghazi and his hold on the President's EPA administration ...
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Trivia Who is longest serving chair of House Ways Means
nonstop flight . 33 1/2 hours landing successfully in paris the following afternoon. and the trivia, we asked, who was the longest serving chairman of ...
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Can outspoken social conservatives win in Virginia
virginia republicans held their state party convention on saturday and appeared to be conducting an intriguing experiment in a state that elected democrats to ...
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Deep Dive Where things stand in LAs mayoral race
Chuck Todd takes a deep dive look into the LA Mayoral race between City Councilman Eric Garcetti and Controller Wendy Greuel. Los Angeles Times reporter James Rainey joins to discuss where things stand in the final 48 hours leading up to the ...
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Former State Department contractor allegedly part of $60M fraud scheme
Former State Department contracting specialist Kathleen McGrade is being investigated for a $60 million procurement fraud scandal, Federal Times reports. McGrade, 64, has pleaded not guilty May 3 to conspiracy, wire fraud and other felony charges. She allegedly steered heating, ventilation and air conditioning work at embassies around the world to the Sterling Royale Group, a company she formed ...
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Essential reading White House knew of IRS scandal in April and more
The chief White House lawyer, Kathryn Ruemmler, learned last month that a Treasury inspector general had concluded an audit of the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups, weeks before the matter became public, according to a senior White House ...
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The Tyra Banks Matriarchy A Scholars Take on Americas Next Top Model
The cast of America's Next Top Model's first cycle, which premiered on UPN on May 20, 2003. Ten years ago, on May 20, 2003, the first episode of America's Next Top Model aired on UPN. Over the course of its run, the dramatic Tyra Banks-hosted modeling competition--in which contestants try to out-fierce one another on the runway and in photo shoots to win a contract at the end of ...
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Video Self-published Colleen Hoover talks living the American dream
Author Colleen Hoover speaks to the "CBS This Morning" co-hosts about how she went from earning $9 an hour to becoming a New York Times best-selling author - without a publisher. Hoover is published by Atria Books, part of Simon & Schuster, a division of ...
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Pack light when flying American and the airline will reward you
American Airlines (Pink Sheets: AAMRQ) will be rewarding me for this by letting me board the plane right after uniformed military, elite and first class passengers. The airline came out with a ...
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Watch Wartime Puts Prom on Hold for 70 Years
High school class in Connecticut celebrated prom night 78 years in the making love this story the class of 1943. Never got a prom. Before they graduated the school canceled the festivities because ...
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Teenager Killed In East Palo Alto Shooting
PALO ALTO (CBS SF) — A shooting in East Palo Alto left a 16-year old boy dead, and two others injured, according to police. Officers responded to a ShotSpotter activation in the 2800 block of Fordham Street around 11 p.m., police said. When officers arrived, they found three teenaged boys with gunshot wounds, according to ...
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New York Pennsylvania Rank High for Opioids Among Injured Workers
Opioid Epidemic Plagues Workers' Comp The epidemic of opioid abuse and its impact on workers’ compensation in the Northeast is particularly noticeable in New York and Pennsylvania, where the percentages of injured workers that become longer-term users of opioids are among the highest in the nation. In its recent study, the Workers Compensation Research Institute found that in New ...
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Court wont get involved in Miss. redistricting
WASHINGTON -; The Supreme Court won't order new legislative elections in Mississippi over complaints about the timing of the state's ...
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Boston cardinal skips event over Irish PMs role
BOSTON -; Cardinal Sean O'Malley skipped Boston College's commencement Monday because of the involvement of Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, who supports of a bill in his country that would allow ...
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Obama Receives President of Myanmar at the White House
Washington, May 20 (Prensa Latina) U.S. President Barack Obama will receive his counterpart from Myanmar, Thein Sein, today at the White House, here on an official visit. Sein is the first Head of State from that Southeast Asian country to be hosted at the White House in 47 years, something which might be interpreted as international recognition for Naiyipido (capital of the nation), according ...
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Financial Stocks Bank of America leads financials higher
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - Financial stocks were up in early trades on Monday, continuing their winning streak ahead of Fed Chief Ben Bernanke's testimony to Congress on ...
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Wal-Mart Fattens Up On Poor America With 25 Of U.S. Grocery Sales
in my May 1 blog , sits atop the mountain. But if limits on a family purse trump the desire for fancier and healthy organic and fresh farm items, what choices remain? For most Americans the answer is one of the greatest growth stories in capitalist history, a company whose growth metronomic remains solid in virtually all economic conditions. As they increasingly shop there, they contribute to ...
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The Too Big To Fail Federal Reserve Bank At 100 Years Of Age
Federal Reserve Chairmen Ben Bernanke As the markets reach new highs, and scandal dominates the nation's capitol, I am compelled to examine the still unresolved challenges about whether our 100 year old central bank- the Federal Reserve- will be capable of warding off another potential systemic financial crisis like the one that almost toppled the economy in 2008. And secondarily, whether ...
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Kerry vows better security at US diplomatic posts
By MATTHEW LEEAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State John Kerry is vowing that the Obama administration will spare no expense or effort to protect U.S. diplomats serving overseas. Speaking to State Department trainees on Monday, Kerry said he was fully committed to implementing and expanding on the recommendations of an independent review board that investigated the deadly Sept. ...
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Stocks open mixed as investors eye Federal Reserve
CNBC's Jim Cramer explains why Yahoo is "desperate' to become part of the technical "firmament." Stocks were narrowly mixed Monday, as investors seemed to take a breather after major averages finished higher for the fourth-consecutive week and amid ongoing concerns ...
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Sessions critical of immigration bill border enforcement
Senator Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., references letters from officials at ICE and the Customs and Immigration Enforcement Association while criticizing proposed U.S. border security under the Gang of Eight's immigration ...
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The Gaggle Obamas continuing message to young black men
The Washington Post's Dan Balz, Nathan Gonzales from the Rothenberg Political Report and Politics in Stereo, and Politico's Carrie Budoff Brown join Chuck Todd to discuss President Obama's commencement speech at Morehouse College and the latest out of the IRS ...
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Obama administration responds to Republican critics
With a triple threat of controversies threatening to further erode the American public's confidence in the government and imperil the president's legislative agenda - the White House is aggressively hitting back at Republican critics. The Daily Rundown's Chuck Todd ...
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