Another Snapshot

1. August Home Foreclosures Hit Record High 
   More homes were seized in August than any other month since the mortgage crisis began, but with default notices dropping, analysts suspect that banks are still pulling their punches.
   Read original story in MSNBC | Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010
2. Middle Class Continues to Shrink
   New census data finds that the poverty rate hit a fifteen-year high of 14.3 percent last year, and that people between 18 and 65 have been hit the hardest.
   Read original story in Associated Press | Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010
3. More Americans are Using Illegal Drugs
   But on the bright side, far fewer people are smoking.
   Read original story in CBS News | Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010
4. Boeing Inks Deal to Send Tourists to Space
   Thanks to an agreement with a space travel company, it may soon be possible for private citizens to spend the weekend in low Earth orbit.
   Read original story in The Washington Post | Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010
5. Almost Half of America Opposes Taxing the Rich
   Forty-four percent of Americans -- including almost half of those earning under $50,000 -- are determined to defend tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 percent.
   Read original story in AP | Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010
6. Meg Whitman Shatters Campaign Spending Record
   The former E-Bay CEO can now claim to have run the most expensive self-financed campaign in U.S. history after treating herself to another $15 million donation.
   Read original story in ABC News | Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010

Not w/ a bang, but w/ some 300 million whimpers.