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Mike Thompson, also a California Dem, is preparing a bill that would build on Boxer's by making airlines frequently update flyers on the timing and cause of a delay and try to return checked bags within a day. Customers booking trips would have to be told the lowest fares and which flights are often late or canceled...
...progressive policy toward legal immigrants. For its foreign residents, the city provides housing assistance, Italian-language courses, psychological counseling and walk-in help desks in native languages for bureaucratic questions. But the greatest boon to new arrivals is plentiful work - Bologna's 2.6% unemployment rate is among Italy's lowest...
...Slovakia and elsewhere. Such agreements have helped the German economy rebound, but they've stoked resentment, particularly since corporate profits, stock prices and the pay packets of top executives are soaring. The share of wages as a percentage of national income in industrialized countries has dropped to its lowest level in more than three decades while, conversely, the share of profits is at a record high. Laura D. Tyson, a former White House economist who teaches at the Haas Business School in Berkeley, California, worries that public feelings of injustice are fueling a growing backlash against globalization...
...With a resurgent Taliban in the south, famine and widespread poverty, drug addiction may rank lowest on the long list of Afghanistan's problems. But it is accompanied by an equally disturbing increase in AIDS cases. Fatimie estimates that half of Afghanistan's 2,000 suspected and 61 confirmed cases of AIDS have been transmitted by intravenous drug use. That doesn't surprise Suliman, who says up to 10 users will share the same needle. Nejat Center and a few foreign NGOs have started distributing condoms and single-use syringes wherever drug users congregate, but that's only a short...
Politicians and higher education experts welcomed the proposal to increase federal Pell Grant funding by the largest amount in three decades last week. But some experts have suggested that the increase may instead disadvantage the lowest-income students entering universities, though Harvard students will likely not be affected. The Pell Grant—a form of federal financial aid that allows more than five million low-income students to receive help—would come at the expense of reducing or eliminating 44 other financial aid iniatives, according to a congressional budget proposal. That cut would include eliminating the Supplemental...