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Survive the econopocalypse

Want to keep your head above water in post-meltdown America? Here's some ways to get your own bailout bucks — without a W2.
If you're like the more than nine percent of Americans currently unemployed, your "Yes We Can!" has lately lost some of its gusto. You've hit up everyone you know for work, including your mom, your ex, and your ex's ex.

By: LISSA HARRIS | June 11, 2009

Surviving the econopocalypse

By: LISSA HARRIS | June 11, 2009

Cap and trade explained

The cool basics of the hottest topic in climate change
The general idea behind cap and trade is pretty simple: put a tax on pollution, and the market will crank out less of it. But if a pollution tax is a lever, cap and trade is a vast, rickety Rube Goldberg contraption. Ingenious? Yes. Complicated? Fiendishly.

By: LISSA HARRIS | May 06, 2009

Congress's war on toys

A new US law threatens to handcuff local indie artisans — and could render certain kids' products contraband
Incredible, but true: until this past Friday, America was on a fast track to outlaw grandmothers selling children's sweaters for charity.

By: LISSA HARRIS | February 09, 2009

Congress bans kids from libraries?

New safety law may prohibit children under 12 from libraries – or make many books illegal
Is it possible that Congress has just inadvertently turned millions of children’s books into contraband?

By: LISSA HARRIS | January 09, 2009

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