Thu. May 17, 2012
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DailyFinance
May 16, 2012
Today, we're checking in on
American public education (NAS: APEI) , whose recent revenue and earnings are plotted below.
MarketWatch (press release)
May 16, 2012
ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The
American public is sympathetic to people in need, but drastically misunderstands the causes of poverty, according to a new report, "Perceptions of Poverty: The Salvation
army's Report to America," ...
Boston Globe
May 16, 2012
The second: that no one ever bothered to do a large survey of Americans before this to determine the prevalence of sleepwalking, er, nocturnal wandering.
BET
May 16, 2012
Taking cues from missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, US military advisers are helping African forces take a fresh approach to fighting
Insurgents.
MarketWatch (press release)
May 16, 2012
WASHINGTON &
Nashville, Tenn., May 16, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Americans' overall well-being reached 70.0 in April, a 20-month high, according to the
Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index(R) (WBI).
MarketWatch (press release)
May 16, 2012
"Lawmakers need to pay heed to the views of average Americans, not the shrill claims of industry advocates," notes SAVE spokesman Philip W. Cook.
Atlanta Journal Constitution
May 16, 2012
Americans visited a
health care provider 1.3 billion times in 2009. That same year, $2.5 trillion dollars was spent on health care.
Green Bay Press Gazette
May 16, 2012
Half of Americans think Facebook is a passing fad, according to the results of an Associated Press-CNBC poll. And, in the run-up to the social network's initial public offering of stock, half of Americans also say the social network's asking price is ...
U.S. News & World Report (blog)
May 16, 2012
By Kenneth T. Walsh
Americans Elect is going through some tough times. The
advocacy group was created by several
wealthy activists to place an independent presidential candidate on the ballot in all 50 states this fall.
Reuters
May 16, 2012
| DAEGU,
South Korea (Reuters) - American sprinter Justin Gatlin continued his recent resurgence ahead of the
London Olympics with victory in the men's 100 meters at the IAAF World Challenge meeting on Wednesday.
Los Angeles Times
May 16, 2012
An annual survey by the American Automobile Assn. released Tuesday predicted that 34.8 million Americans will travel by all modes at least 50 miles from home during the holiday weekend, a 1.2% increase over last year.
RTT News
May 16, 2012
(RTTNews) - The Centers for Disease Control, in a report issued in mid-April, noted young
Americans do not heed warnings regarding high-risk activities for
skin cancer, adding youth are disregardful of sun-blocking precautions during outdoor activities ...
KTUL (blog)
May 16, 2012
It says that many
Americans who took out loans severalMore >>
student loan
debt is a problem facing people of all ages... not just 20-somethings. An article in the
Los Angeles Times highlights the situation. It says that many
Americans who took out ...
CBS News
May 16, 2012
(CBS News) Sleepwalking is much more common in the US population that previously thought, researchers announced Monday. Can You Fire Someone for Sleepwalking?
The Atlantic
May 16, 2012
Americans over the age of 55 are the least likely to find another job and the most likely to take a significant pay cut for the next position.
Chicago Tribune
May 16, 2012
WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - Roughly a third of
Americans view
President Barack Obama more favorably and a third less favorably as a result of his declaration of support for
gay marriage, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Tuesday.
NPR (blog)
May 16, 2012
But given the need, we wondered what Americans thought about compensation for three kinds of donations that can be made while people are alive: kidneys, bone marrow and a portion of liver big enough to help someone whose liver is failing.
Chicago Tribune
May 16, 2012
It's hard to look at the retirement savings of average working Americans and not be pessimistic about the future. Unfortunately, it will be difficult for employees who are many years from retirement to live as well in their old age as members of my ...
ABC News
May 16, 2012
Americans Elect has built a secure online presidential nominating system and has secured a spot on the presidential general election ballot in most states.
BusinessWeek
May 16, 2012
By TALI ARBEL Half of Americans think Facebook is a passing fad, according to the results of a new Associated Press-CNBC poll.
Reuters
May 16, 2012
They joined a small but growing number of
Americans who are making a surprisingly quick return to homeownership after defaulting on their loans or being forced into short sales that cost their
banks money.
Kansas City Star
May 16, 2012
By HUGO MARTIN Americans plan to travel in slightly higher numbers this summer, according to surveys, starting with the upcoming Memorial Day weekend.
BusinessWeek
May 16, 2012
By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER and MARTIN CRUTSINGER
Americans are starting to see some relief from higher gas prices, a change that could revive the
economy in the months ahead.
RTT News
May 14, 2012
(RTTNews) -
American public education (APEI: News ) reported first quarter net income of $0.50 per share after the close Thursday, up from $0.43 per share in the previous year.
The Coloradoan
May 14, 2012
WASHINGTON - If
Americans continue to pack on pounds, 42 percent may end up obese by 2030, and 11 percent could be severely obese, adding billions of dollars to
health care costs, according to new projections released today.
Goal.com America
May 14, 2012
American goalkeepers finished the season on a high, but Tim Ream and Bolton failed to defeat Stoke and were relegated. By Matthew Braine Fulham played its final game of the season without its best player as Clint Dempsey missed the fixture against ...
Houston Chronicle
May 14, 2012
The total paycheck for
Americans jumped 2.2 percent in the 12 months through March, keeping
consumers in the economic loop.
WPDE
May 14, 2012
by MJ Lee For the third year in a row, a narrow majority of
Americans consider gay and lesbian relations morally acceptable, signaling that this is the new "new normal" in public opinion, according to a new
Gallup Poll released Monday just days after ...
CBS News
May 14, 2012
A new CBS News/
New York Times Poll shows a solid majority of
Americans support legal recognition for same-sex couples - though not necessarily through the official act of
marriage - and the number of people who do support full marriage rights for gay ...
Daily Herald
May 13, 2012
While European voters have long had a greater taste for taxpayer-financed social-welfare programs -- and higher expectations of cradle-to-grave services, from
health care to higher
education -- than their US counterparts, there are signs that
Americans ...
WCSH-TV
May 13, 2012
According to the National Retail Federation Americans are digging deep into their pockets to show Mom just how much they care.
Phys.Org
May 13, 2012
Americans, on average, are willing to pay $162 per year in higher electricity bills to support a national standard requiring that 80 percent of the energy be "clean," or not derived from fossil fuels.
The Guardian
May 13, 2012
(Even many gay people don't realize, though, that we won Lawrence not because the justices said gays are equal to straights; they ruled that all Americans have a right to privacy in sexual conduct. The court has never, not once, deemed gays a class ...
Huffington Post
May 13, 2012
The
Gallup and Healthways began tracking emotional health in January 2008, and the latest Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index shows that
Americans' emotional health index score is now 79.9. The previous high was 79.8, which was reached in March 2008 and ...
Washington Post
May 13, 2012
ROME - A few thousand people opposed to Italy's 1978 law allowing abortion have marched through the Italian capital in a protest drawing people from around the world, including Americans and Poles. Nuns, priests and lay people marched in Rome Sunday ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
May 13, 2012
Almost 26 million
Americans had asthma in 2010, the last time data on the disease were reported. Seven million of those were
children and
adolescents.
Chicago Tribune
May 12, 2012
Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook co-founder who renounced his US citizenship in what many have seen as a move to avoid paying federal
taxes, has managed to unify many
Americans behind
uncle Sam's outstretched hand. Normally, Uncle Sam is portrayed as the ...
MiamiHerald.com
May 12, 2012
In this photo released by
China's Xinhua news agency,
Argentina's Benavidez Pamela, right, sends a left to El Zahraoui Zohra of Morocco during their 51kg division boxing match at the World Women's Championships in Qinhuangdao, north China's
Hebei ...
San Francisco Chronicle
May 12, 2012
That simple statement is giving hope to many long-unemployed or underemployed Americans who see hotel jobs as a pathway back to full-time work - low-paying, long-hours work, but a job nonetheless.
Los Angeles Times
May 12, 2012
By Rene Lynch Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook co-founder who renounced his US citizenship in what many have seen as a move to avoid paying federal
taxes, has managed to unify many
Americans behind
uncle Sam's outstretched hand.
Washington Post
May 11, 2012
Wired News
May 11, 2012
By Ryan Singel More
Americans want the presidential candidates to focus on protecting the government and the electrical grid against
hackers than fighting
terrorism groups.
StandardNet
May 11, 2012
What we can see as an ironic response to a naturalized citizen whose
wealth grew as he treated the
American public to every right-wing lie his network could pass off as fact, keeping alive the rabid, drooling mix of hysteria, paranoia and half-truths ...
Washington Post (blog)
May 11, 2012
Americans continue to provide
logistical support and backup, US officials say, using their
aircraft to deposit Afghan soldiers at the targets.
MarketWatch (press release)
May 11, 2012
MADISON, Wis., May 11, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- Quincy Bioscience, the makers of Prevagen, celebrates Older Americans Month during the month of May by offering free memory assessments online. The Agency on Aging celebrates every Older ...
Washington Post
May 11, 2012
Public opinion on
President Obama's top economic accomplishments during his first term in office is strongly divided in new polling done by the
Washington Post and ABC News, a split that reflects the difficulty he will have running this fall solely on ...
Fox Business
May 11, 2012
American public education (APEI) gapped down today, opening at $27.75 after closing the previous trading session at $31.87.
NPR
May 11, 2012
Many Americans are changing their minds. In this part of the program we'll hear what Americans are saying and dip into the book some cite for their opinions.
Washington Post (blog)
May 11, 2012
By Jennifer Huget Two studies released Thursday by the CDC suggest that public-health messages about the dangers of tanning booths and sunburns are lost on a substantial number of
Americans. In one study, the CDC and the National
cancer Institute ...
