U.S. homeowners increasingly failed to keep up with their home loan payments in November, as the number of foreclosure filings surged 68 percent nationwide compared with the same month a year ago, according to a mortgage research company. ...more

December 20, 2007

If you're like me, you recently received another sack of phone books at your door. I am so sick and tired of these bloody things I could scream! Within the past six months 13-plus pounds of near-useless paper has been dumped at my doorstep. We didn't ask for the phone books. We did not put out an urgent call to Verizon or AT&T to please bring us some more dead trees or child booster seats. There they were anyway waiting annoyingly on our front stoop. ...more

December 20, 2007

SEBRING — Robert Saffold wants to make sure all children receive things they need for Christmas this year, regardless of their economic status. Saffold, executive secretary of Florida Sportsman Association, and other volunteers will take underprivileged children on a shopping spree, giving them each $60 Saffold said many of the children are from families without employment, families trying to survive on welfare assistance programs or grandparent households. ...more

December 15, 2007

Tom Beckwith knows the usual rap about offshore outsourcing. It costs American jobs, critics say, while it underpays foreign workers. ...more

December 11, 2007

Florida and California helped drive the national foreclosure rate to an all-time high in the third quarter, fresh evidence of the problems afflicting distressed homeowners amid the housing meltdown. ...more

December 7, 2007

For the second month in a row, Florida's foreclosure rate ranked third highest in the nation, the latest sign many homeowners are falling behind on mortgage payments and increasingly losing their homes, according to California-based research company RealtyTrac. ...more

November 30, 2007

Anyone who follows the media has probably heard many times that the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, and incomes of the population in general are stagnating. Moreover, those who say such things can produce many statistics, including data from the Census Bureau, which seem to indicate that. ...more

November 23, 2007

The United States is starting to look like a slowpoke on the Internet. Examples abound of countries that have faster and cheaper broadband connections, and more of their population connected to them. ...more

October 31, 2007