Topic: The Associated Press
New CEO of mortgage giant Freddie Mac earned $800,000 last yearThe chief executive of Freddie Mac earned nearly $800,000 last year after being hired in late summer to run the government controlled mortgage finance company.Charles Haldeman, 61, who started as CEO of ...
Caterpillar CEO took 54 percent cut in compensation as equipment maker weathered the recessionLast year, Caterpillar Inc. gave Chairman and CEO Jim Owens less than half the $14.6 million compensation he received in 2008 as the world's biggest maker of mining and ...
AP Analysis: Baseball salaries up slightly despite recession and a slow free-agent marketOpening-day baseball salaries grew despite the recession, although at a slower rate than in recent years.The average salary went up 1.8 percent to $3.3 million at the start of season, ...
Average county was stressed in Jan. as joblessness spread to more states, AP analysis showsWorsening economic conditions caused the nation to reach a bleak milestone in January: For the first time since The Associated Press began analyzing conditions in more than 3,100 ...
Economic Rorschach Test," I wanted to know the first thing that popped into your head after hearing that Geithner, Paulson, and Greenspan agree the economy is recovering.. WASHINGTON - Social Security's annual surplus nearly evaporated in 2009 for the first time in ...
US economic strains hit a peak in December as Western states weakened, AP stress map shows Weakness in Western energy-producing states helped raise the average U.S. county's economic stress in December to its highest point since the recession began in December 2007, ...
Influx of new residents as recession started worsened its effects, AP review of IRS data shows Christy Nameche moved with her family to Kendall County, Ill., in 2007, joining thousands of other hope-filled newcomers who made the county No. 1 in population ...
Hard-hit counties in Sun Belt struggle to begin an economic rebound, AP stress map showsOn the surface, economic stress in some of the Sun Belt's hardest-hit counties appeared to ease in November. But beneath some positive numbers is a region struggling to ...
Despite the recession, the Associated Press reports, U.S. crime rates continue to fall in 2009 compared to last year. anyone who read Freakonomics knows that the relationship between the economy and crime, particularly violent crime, is very weak.
Wyoming AP editors select economic recession, gray wolves as top state stories of 2009Wyoming's souring economy and the enduring saga over gray wolves in the state were the top Wyoming news stories of 2009, according to an annual ranking by Wyoming Associated ...
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