Health care has become the beating heart of America's economy. In the past 15 years, the health care economy has pumped out 4.5 million new jobs, including related fields such as drug development and health insurance. A dozen of the 30 fastest growing occupations are related to health care. Even last month - as the unemployment rate took its biggest jump in 22 years - health care continued to add thousands of jobs. ...more

June 14, 2008

Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, who is investigating six televangelists - including Randy and Paula White of Tampa-based Without Walls International - for alleged lavish spending, is facing growing criticism from prominent conservatives and evangelicals, some of whom question whether Grassley is biased against the Pentecostal televangelists because of his Baptist faith. ...more

May 25, 2008

Benny Hinn of World Healing Center Church has become the third evangelist to submit documents relating to a U.S. senator's financial inquiry. ...more

February 26, 2008

I know from personal experience how difficult Social Security's disability process can be. When my father was 52, he suffered a severe cerebral hemorrhage caused by a rare form of brain cancer. As I took care of the application for him, it opened my eyes to the complicated rules associated with our disability programs. ...more

February 17, 2008

Sen. Chuck Grassley, a Baptist and member of Prairie Lakes Church in Cedar Falls, Iowa, is a Capitol Hill expert on change in the tax-exempt arena. ...more

February 7, 2008

A plan to send $500 to $1,000 rebates to all but the richest taxpayers advanced in the Senate on Wednesday after Republicans and Democrats teamed to add aid for disabled veterans, the elderly and the unemployed to a House-passed economic recovery bill. ...more

January 31, 2008

The House voted Tuesday to rush rebates of $600 to $1,200 to most taxpayers, but a partisan battle brewed in the Senate over Democrats' efforts to add jobless aid and help for the poor to the economic stimulus package. ...more

January 30, 2008

A top Senate Democrat unveiled a $156 billion economic stimulus package on Monday that awards rebates to senior citizens living off Social Security and extends unemployment benefits, setting up a clash with the White House and House leaders pushing a narrower package. ...more

January 29, 2008

Randy and Paula White, the now-divorced founders of Without Walls International Church, still have not answered the questions asked by a U.S. senator looking into the tax-exempt status of their ministry's finances. ...more

January 9, 2008

TAMPA - Randy and Paula White, the now-divorced founders of Without Walls International Church, still have not answered the questions asked by a U.S. senator looking into the tax-exempt status of their ministry's finances. ...more

January 8, 2008