Class Conflicts
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's plan to raise taxes on wealthier people while preserving cuts for everyone else appears increasingly likely to founder before Election Day.
WASHINGTON - House Minority Leader John Boehner says he would vote for President Obama's plan to extend tax cuts only for middle-class earners, not the wealthy, if that were the only option available to House Republicans.
WASHINGTON - The number of people in the U.S.
CLEVELAND - President Barack Obama says it's time to extend Bush-era tax cuts for the middle class - but the nation can't afford the Republican approach of extending tax cuts for the wealthy as well.
BEIJING - China has eclipsed Japan as the world's second-biggest economy after three decades of blistering growth that put overtaking the U.S.
