Bloomberg Businessweek Goes Back to School: 'Tossing the First Lady's

Tim Graham
August 27th, 2014 6:15 AM
While most national-media reporting on Michelle Obama’s push for strict school-lunch standards has been delivered with unhealthy amounts of promotional syrup, some outlets have grown more blunt. The latest edition of Bloomberg Businessweek (Aug. 25-31) carried this line in the table of contents: “Michelle Obama’s plan to rethink school lunches hits a snag: Kids.”The headline over the story…
 

Time's Brief History of the Deficit: Reagan Tax Cuts Bad, Clinton Tax

Tim Graham
September 3rd, 2009 12:23 PM
The September 7 edition of Time magazine features a brief article up front on "A Brief History of the U.S. Deficit." Writer Claire Suddath claims that the quadrupling of the deficit under Obama is somehow a good news/bad news story: The good news is that the Obama Administration has scaled back its estimate of this year's budget deficit to an estimated $1.58 trillion (down from $1.84 trillion in…