Pat Dollard

CNBC: Global youth unemployment has hit a record high following the financial crisis and is likely to get worse later this year, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said Thursday.

New York Magazine: Conservatives despise him. Many liberals remain stubbornly unimpressed. He gets no credit when he does something right, and faces new, often manufactured controversies seemingly every day. And it’s all adding up, because now, even babies — sweet, lovable, barely sentient babies — have turned on President Obama, the man with whom they [...]

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Politico: Last summer, Democrats argued that the Tea Party movement was the astroturf creation of corporate groups. Now that the grass-roots conservative resurgence has emerged as a clear force on the right, the left is making a different case: That tea parties are simply the enemy. To that end, the Agenda Project, a new, progressive [...]

CHICAGO (AP) —Jurors in the corruption trial of Rod Blagojevich said they have reached agreement on two of 24 counts against the former Illinois governor, and the judge said he will order additional deliberation. The jurors said Thursday they haven’t discussed 11 counts of wire fraud. They indicated they have discussed the remaining 11 counts [...]

New York Times: Technology shares and weak jobs data sent Wall Street indexes down on Thursday, as traders took in more evidence that the global economy was slowing. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 110 points during morning trading but regained some of that ground before noon. Exchanges in Asia and Europe were mostly lower. [...]

Politico: Florida GOP Senate candidate Marco Rubio on Thursday declined to take a firm stance on a newly proposed bill in the state that would require immigrants to carry identification or face a 20-day jail sentence. The bill was unveiled Wednesday by Bill McCollum, the state’s Republican attorney general and a gubernatorial candidate. In his [...]

The Hill: A report by the National Business Travel Association (NBTA) shows global business travel dropped 8.8 percent in 2009, the worst decline since 9/11. The study also indicates business travel recovery will not be uniform across the globe. Asia, Latin American and the Middle East are expected to outpace travel growth in North America [...]