With just three days left for federal employees to submit their cost-saving ideas as part of the third annual SAVE Award, White House Chief of Staff William Daley, sent the email below to all federal employees who've participated in the SAVE Award in previous years. If you're a federal employee, we want to hear from you!  [...]

Have you rated the six finalists in the Race to the Top Commencement Challenge yet? Thousands of Americans have already weighed in, but if you haven’t yet, head over to WhiteHouse.gov/Commencement now to tell us what you think. Each school produced a short video with help from the Get Schooled Foundation and wrote an essay explaining [...]

Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that's happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. This week, President Obama held townhalls in Northern Virginia, California, and Nevada, to speak directly to the American people about his vision for reducing our debt and bringing down our deficit based on the values of shared responsibility and [...]

ETF Database submits: Although the stock market has risen broadly in the first quarter of 2011, numerous concerns remain regarding the health of the global economy. While job creation levels have picked up to more comfortable levels, unemployment remains high in the country, especially when counting the large number of people who would prefer to [...]

Dennis U. Atuanya submits: The global economy is highly sensitive to the supply of crude oil, at present the dominant form of energy used to power the gamut of domestic and industrial processes around the world. The current unrest in Egypt raised some degree of concern in major markets and sent Brent prices above the [...]