The financial squeeze on Americans got tighter over the past decade as housing expenses - everything from mortgage payments and rent, to utilities and insurance - far outpaced the growth in incomes, a new study shows. ...more

October 12, 2008

legal and illegal - it is an article of faith that vast numbers of new arrivals are fracturing American traditions, recalibrating our values and undermining our language. Spanish spoken on the streets of L.A. is, to those inclined to see it that way, evidence of something essential slipping out of our culture, or of a scary kind of reverse assimilation. Instead of becoming more like Americans, the fear is that immigrants are trying to absorb parts of this country into Latin America. ...more

September 26, 2008

The wave of immigrants entering the United States slowed dramatically last year as the economy faltered and the government stepped up enforcement of immigration laws. ...more

September 23, 2008

The crises in the housing and financial industries is of concern to mature Americans.... ...more

September 22, 2008

Give The Country Credit Regarding "Obama's Race May Be Decider" (Other Views, Sept. 10): ...more

September 17, 2008

The joy of grandparenting comes at a price for Dave and Nora Dacus, like many others who step up when a child's parents can't or won't. ...more

September 14, 2008

Solving Florida's housing crisis may rest on the shoulders of the state's senior citizens. ...more

August 25, 2008

White people will no longer make up a majority of Americans by 2042, according to new government projections. That's eight years sooner than previous estimates, made in 2004. ...more

August 14, 2008

Hillsborough County's breakneck growth stumbled from 2006 to 2007, marking the smallest population gain this decade -- fewer people than Polk or Pasco counties. ...more

August 7, 2008

On an evening its rivals were preoccupied with Christie Brinkley's divorce and the capture of a Brooklyn murder suspect, New York's WXTV led its local news with a story about graffiti saying "Get out of the USA" painted near a Peruvian restaurant on Long Island. ...more

August 3, 2008