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...Hewitt numbers also highlight differences across cities and industries. For 2010, raises are expected to be the largest in Houston (3.4%), Minneapolis/St. Paul (3%), Washington, D.C., (3%) and Des Moines (2.9%), with the smallest increases to be seen in San Francisco (2.4%), Los Angeles (2.2%) and Detroit (2.1%). In terms of industries, workers are projected to fare the best in energy (3.7%) and not as well in education (2%). Minnesota-based windmill repairmen have nothing to worry about. Just don't get a job teaching in Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pay Raises Are the Worst in 33 Years | 8/12/2009 | See Source »

...Highlight Reel: 1. Inside Senator Hillary Clinton's fractious and fizzling campaign: "Far from being the overpowering political machine of legend, the Clinton campaign turned out to be a world filled with destructive internal conflicts, a place of tensions and enmities." We already knew Hillary Clinton ran a weak campaign organization - its top officials managed money poorly and apparently didn't grasp the intricacies of the primary caucus system until it was too late. But the book sheds new light on just how flawed and, in James Carville's term, "joyless" the team was. Balz and Johnson reveal that Clinton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle for America | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

...Highlight Reel: 1. On possible explanations for the pharmacological boom: "Several factors may have contributed to the increased use of antidepressant medications. Perhaps most important, major depression may have become more common ... [several antidepressants] were approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat depressive and anxiety disorders ... [and] improving public attitudes toward seeking mental health in general, increasing rates of treatment in individuals with major depression, and growing public acceptance of a biological cause of depression may also have contributed to increasing antidepressant use." (Read "Why Antidepressants Don't Live Up to the Hype...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Antidepressants in America | 8/5/2009 | See Source »

...approach is not that the President has been forced to compromise on Capitol Hill. Such wheeling and dealing happens all the time, even when the majority in Congress shares a party affiliation with the White House. It is rather that the President has, with rare exception, declined to highlight these compromises or take hard-line stands, even as he continues to declare in speeches and statements his determination to force through sweeping change in the way Washington operates. Despite Republican suspicion of Obama's ideological bent, he has proven to govern as a pragmatist, willing to do what it takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Legislative Approach: Pragmatism | 7/31/2009 | See Source »

...President woke up one morning and demanded nothing but microbrews from Polynesia, well, then the White House would serve nothing but microbrews from Polynesia," he explains. Scheib says that although there has never been an American-only policy in the White House kitchen, domestic products are frequently highlighted at official events. "We are America's home and obviously we like to to highlight what's best in America," he says. (See pictures of Obama and Biden going out for burgers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Kind of Beer Is Served at the White House? | 7/30/2009 | See Source »

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