As the campus reels from a swine flu scare, health was the center of the national discussion yesterday, as President Obama last night addressed a joint session of Congress in his strongest pitch yet for health care reform. The speech included blunt calls for action and pithy soundbites, but didn’t teach viewers anything that the average college student shouldn’t have already known: the president prefers a government-backed health plan, and it’s rude to speak while someone else is talking. (Rep. Joe Wilson (R – S.C.) yelled “You lie” in the middle of the speech.)
If Obama has his way in the health care debate, you will likely recieve automatic coverage after you graduate, which is a good thing because you might not have a job. The Wall Street Journal’s Kelly Evans reports that job openings fell to a record low in July:
Employers appear to be in no rush to hire back the millions who lost their jobs in the recession, despite signs of improvement in the economy.
The U.S. had a record low 2.4 million job openings in July, the Labor Department said Wednesday, the fewest since the department started tracking the figure in 2000, and half the peak of 4.8 million in mid-2007.
If you do find yourself out of college and drowning in debt, Nancy Trejos of The Washington Post has some good news. Credit card companies have been more willing to negotiate with customers since the onset of the recession.
But, in what surely the biggest news to hit Georgeous Prince George’s County yesterday, The Post’s Jonathan Mummolo reports that life’s about to get harder for porn shops. The County Council passed new regulations on where adult book stores and video stores can operate.
Quick hits:
- Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D – Md.) won’t become the chair of a Senate committee.
- Dan Brown’s newest book “The Lost Symbol” is set in Washington.