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IBD'S TOP 10.(A)
Businesses Slashed 48,000 Jobs
1Businesses shed jobs for a third straight month, pushing the unemployment rate back to an 8-year high of 6% from 5.8% in March. The hard-hit factory sector let another 98,000 workers go in April. The services sector gained 25,000 jobs. The economy has lost over half a million jobs this year, with 8.8 million now idle. More on this page, A2
Market Optimists Have Busy Day
2The Nasdaq and S&P 500 rose to their third straight week of gains as investors bet on an economic recovery. The Dow and S&P 500 each rose 1.5% for the day on robust trade. The Nasdaq, up 2.1%, closed at its high for the year and just 19 points shy of a 10-month peak. Airline and e-commerce stocks led winners. More on this page, B2
Campaign Finance Law Upended
3A federal court struck down most of a ban on the use of large corporate and union contributions by political parties, casting doubt on the future of the new campaign finance law. The court made its ruling effective immediately. It also ruled unconstitutional sweeping new restrictions on election-time political ads by special-interest groups.
Fed Rate Change Seen Unlikely
- Try again. (campaign finance; includes related article on campaign finance law)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) July 8, 1989 700+ words
Campaign finance Try again FIFTY years ago a comedian...the centrepiece of a package of campaign-finance reforms. In their place, Mr Bush...is that it does attempt to link campaign-finance reform with other congressional...
- Improper Influence: Campaign Finance Law, Political Interest Groups, and the...
- Magazine article from: American Political Science Review Shea, Daniel M. September 1, 1997 700+ words
...students of collective action, campaign finance law, and the U.S. political...generally. The rationale behind campaign finance reform in the early 1970s...institutional base of politics. "A campaign finance system that enforces a dependency...
- States face challenge of abiding by campaign finance law.(SunBurst)
- Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) January 24, 2003 700+ words
...different? It's the federal campaign finance law that took effect the day...circumventing the new federal campaign finance law. They need to block any...end runs on the new federal campaign finance law through our state political...
- Soft Money Hard Law: A Guide to the New Campaign Finance Law. (Books: This...
- Magazine article from: Campaigns & Elections June 1, 2002 700+ words
Soft Money Hard Law: A Guide to the New Campaign Finance Law by Robert F Bauer, Perkins Coie, 160 pages. Dissects the recently passed Campaign Finance Law that is scheduled to take effect after this November...
- Justice Department reviews campaign-finance law for possible White House...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Cannon, Angie Enda, Jodi March 6, 1997 700+ words
...historically that campaign-finance law does not cover...most of the current campaign finance controversy...longtime advocate for campaign-finance reform, said he...interpretation of the finance law. ``The reason...
- House votes to restrict 527s Democrats reject expanded campaign-finance...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times April 6, 2006 700+ words
...multimillionaires - a change to campaign-finance law that Republicans argue will...wealthy" have on elections. Campaign-finance reform measures passed in...Rules Committee, said the campaign-finance changes in 2002 left an...
- Connecticut's New Campaign Finance Law Signifies Major Changes for Lobbyists,...
- News wire article from: Mondaq Business Briefing Bayer, Aaron January 9, 2007 700+ words
...you should be aware of sweeping new campaign finance reform provisions that take effect...An Act Concerning Comprehensive Campaign Finance Reform for State-Wide Constitutional...elections, which are governed by federal campaign finance laws. This Advisory highlights how...
- MUD FLEW DESPITE CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAW.(Local)
- Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) Morson, Berny November 4, 1998 700+ words
...was supposed to be a clean race, guided by a new campaign finance law and candidates' pledges to limit mud-slinging...candidates slung mud at each other for violating the new campaign finance law. In the end, the sound and fury over who was spending...
