economic downturn

In an effort to reduce the deficit, President Obama has proposed a limit on charitable deductions for the top income bracket.

Arts nonprofits are concerned that they will be disproportionately affected — at time when they're already hurting from the economic downturn.

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The European Union, a vision born after the devastation of World War II to unify the continent, has been rocked by the economic downturn, the debt crisis, rising nationalism and difficult issues like immigration.

Can the 27-nation EU find a new sense of mission?

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Per Politico, the White House claims that “more than half of the projected deficits over the next 10 years are directly attributable to the previous Administration’s failure to follow the pay-as-you-go principle.”

As consumerism takes a hit during the economic downturn, people who repair what you already own are getting a boost.

In 2008, more than 26 million digital music players were sold, and from New York to California, repair companies — like New York City's "iPod Doctor" — are springing up to fix them.

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He’s repeating a lot of what he said earlier in the year, but I still think selling idea of passing health care reform as essential to our long term economic strength is a tough pill to swallow for Independents.

What’s more, if this editorial would have dropped a few weeks ago it would have held a lot more weight because it wouldn’t be seen as a response to criticism.

But now it feels defensive, and that’s not where Obama wants to be in this fight.

We all know that universal health care has been incredibly hard to achieve, but budget neutral universal health care?

Well, that seems nearly impossible. Well, nearly impossibly politically. So if Obama can pull it off it’ll be a feat indeed.

New college graduates are finding out that looking for work in an economic downturn is not the best time to be looking for work.

Recent graduates do have a leg up on older job-hunters: it's a lot easier for a 22-year-old — unburdened by mortgage and kids — to go to where the work is.

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The poetry business is strangely immune to the economic downturn. That's because poetry never made any money to begin with.

But people affected by the downturn are turning to poetry to express themselves. With no money at stake, readers of NPR's Planet Money blog took a Recession Haiku Challenge.

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