News and Issues
The GAO Testifies About Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Tests
Perhaps most disturbing, one company told a donor that an above average risk prediction for breast cancer meant she was "in the high risk of pretty much getting" the disease, a statement that experts found to be "horrifying" because it implies the test is diagnostic. more »
Reprise of Elizabeth Warren, Woman of Note
As long as you had family, you had people who would make sure that you got fed one way or another. Family was about canning peaches, and canning peaches was about making sure that there'd at least be something come next November, when it was cold outside and there were no more crops coming in. Family is the heart of what it's about more »
Pew Reports, How the Great Recession Has Changed Life in America
Blacks and Hispanics are more upbeat than whites. The young are more optimistic than middle-aged and older Americans. And Democrats are more upbeat than Republicans, even though Democrats have lower incomes and less wealth and have suffered more recession-related job losses. more »
Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke's Report to the Congress
Bernanke's Good News, Bad News: Purchases of durable goods increasing especially rapidly; housing market remains weak, with the overhang of vacant or foreclosed houses weighing on home prices and construction more »
