April 15 , 1947 - Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line. April 15, 1865 - Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by John Wilkes Booth. Andrew Johnson is then sworn in as the 17th President of the United States. United States - April 15 is the official deadline for filing an individual tax return (or requesting an extension) in most areas of the country.
Worst job creation record since Hoover Administration. A growing economy should be good news for those seeking jobs. But over the course of President Bush’s five years in office, his Administration has the worst overall job creation record since Herbert Hoover more than 70 years ago. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 9/1/06) Overall non-farm payroll employment has increased by 3 million during the Bush presidency compared with 22.7 million during the Clinton presidency. Overall employment g
Southern Democrats are members of the U.S. Democratic Party who reside in the U.S. Suuth. In the early 1800s, they were the definitive pro-slavery wing of the party, opposed to both the anti-slavery, Republicans (GOP) and the more liberal Northern Democrats. After the loss of their territory in the American Civil War and the Republican-led Reconstruction which followed, Southern Democrats regrouped into various vigilante organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan and the White League; eventually "Re
While families work harder, their wages continue to decline. Middle-class families are working harder and earning less today than they were at the start of the Bush Administration. According to the Wall Street Journal, “Since the end of the recession of 2001, a lot of the growth in GDP per person -- that is, productivity -- has gone to profits, not wages.” (Wall Street Journal, 3/27/06) Median household income has declined $1,273 from $47,599 in 2000 to $46,326 in 2005. The real median earnings
I always wondered why relatively poor Southern conservatives would vote for a party that encouraged the growth and prominence of big business. It simply didn’t make sense. But then I pieced it together. Northerners used to vote Republican and Southerners used to vote Democratic and it stayed this way all the way up to 1948, which was when Harry S Truman ran on a Civil Rights platform as a Democrat. Then, Strom Thurmond ran as a Dixiecrat (which means a Southern Democrat who is also racist) and