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Designers are happy with the recession
The recession has taken its toll on jobs and the economy, but it seems that some of the top designers are pretty happy with their life status. WWD.com has a great profile of how the crisis has affected the fashion elite. Strangely enough, the designers featured in the story, think that the bad economy has positively impacted the industry.
WAKE UP 1 :CBO Predicts Recession Will End in 2009 Without Stimulus
CBO Predicts Recession Will End in 2009 Without Stimulus The Congressional Budget Office predicted that the current economic recession will end in the second half of 2009 without the trillion dollar stimulus. From The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2009 to 2019 (pdf): CBO anticipates that the current recession, which started in December 2007, will last until the second half of 2009, making it the longest recession since World War II. (The longest such recessions otherwise, the 1973–1974 and 1981–1982 recessions, both lasted 16 months.Wachovia report: Florida hit harder by recession
The worst of the recession likely has passed in most of the U.S., but Florida is on a more difficult road to recovery, according to a new report from Wachovia Economics Group. Florida went into the recession nine months ahead of the rest of the U.S., and excesses in housing and commercial real estate are considerably worse than the nation as a whole, the report says. Statewide, the median sales price of existing homes is down about 45 percent from the peak of the housing boom in November 2005.Recession Has Us Redefining Luxury
Americans are paring down the list of familiar household appliances they say they can't live without, according to a new national survey by the Pew Research Center's Social & Demographic Trends project. Microwaves, televisions and even home air conditioning don’t seem as necessary as they once did. In fact, we’re beginning to see them as luxuries In the past decade, the public's luxury-versus-necessity perceptual boundaries had been moving in the other direction - the share of adults who considered a microwave a necessity was just 32% in 1996.Recession
no not hotdogs like that - real ones...
What is Recession?
This story is about a man who once upon a time was selling hotdogs by the roadside.
Gotham Lighting Recalls Compact Fluorescent Recessed Ceiling Lights; Can Fail to Work in an Emergency
Gotham Lighting Recalls Compact Fluorescent Recessed Ceiling Lights; Can Fail to Work in an Emergency NEWS from CPSC U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Office of Information and Public Affairs Washington, DC 20207 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 23, 2008 Release #08-405 Firm's Recall Hotline: (800) 315-4982 CPSC Recall Hotline: (800) 638-2772 CPSC Media Contact: (301) 504-7908 Gotham Lighting Recalls Compact Fluorescent Recessed Ceiling Lights; Can Fail to Work in an Emergency WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S.Too Old for Foster Care, and Facing the Recession
Published on Wednesday, April 8, 2009 by The New York Times Even in boom times, young people who become too old for the foster-care system often struggle to make it on their own, lacking families, job skills or adequate educations. Now, the recession has made the challenges of life after foster care even more formidable, especially for those seeking federal housing vouchers, which are contingent on having an income. Michael Smith will turn 21 in August, and his foster care benefits will expire.How to Keep Your Money in Your Pocket During a Recession
Shopping for necessary items such as groceries can be trying enough during a recession, but trying to fit extras into an already tight budget can be downright frustrating. The solution: cut out the middle man and make them yourself at a fraction of the cost.
http://www.gomestic.com/Homemaking/How-to-Keep-Your-Money-in-Your-Pocket-During-a-Recession.350621
Great political spoof video: Uncle Jay Explains Recess
This is great.... Uncle Jay explains what recess means for the United States Congress.
MN doctors find promising treatment for fatal skin disease: Recessive Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa (RDEB)
MN doctors find promising treatment for fatal skin disease By STEVE KARNOWSKI Published: Monday, June 02, 2008 Doctors at the University of Minnesota say they've found a promising treatment for a dreadful genetic skin disease that affects children and has always been fatal up to now. The treatment - a transplant of stem cells obtained from his brother's bone marrow - has given new hope for Nate Liao, a 25-month-old from Clarksburg, N.J., and potentially other patients suffering from the same and similar diseases, the doctors said. Those young patients include another one of Nate's brothers.
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