Nurses today claim that they are overworked and underpaid, and patients are suffering because of it. According to the Chicago Tribune, as many as 1,720 hospital patients have been killed and 9,584 injured because of nursing-related errors since 1995. As workloads for nurses increase significantly — along with mandatory overtime — patients who require supervision are being left without care, and nurses have claimed that their own health is suffering.   More  

According to Democrats, their Party has become the party of prosperity. Clinton's farewell speech and the Democratic National Convention was a celebration of that prosperity, and at the conclusion he appropriated the famous question that Reagan had asked 12 years before:   More  

In February 2000, the U.S. marked its 107th consecutive month of economic growth, breaking the previous 106-month record of postwar expansion from February 1961-December 1969. The growth of the Internet has played an instrumental role in driving the economy.   More  

Earlier this year, the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace ended the longest and largest white-collar strike in American history.   More  

The past few years have seen an unprecedented focus on efforts to increase U.S. trade and investment in Africa. On May 18, after a five-year battle in Congress, President Clinton signed legislation called the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act that will make it easier to sell goods from sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean within the United States.   More