Microsoft's Offer Microsoft is planning to make an offer to Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson that the software giant hopes he won't refuse. But analysts call the offer too little. Pacifica's Don Rush reports. The Africa Growth and Opportunity Act has gone to the Senate after passing the House overwhelmingly.
Supporters say the bill helps African nations provide for themselves rather than depend on aid.
But opponents say it will continue the poverty and send US jobs overseas. Heather Szerlag reports. It used to be that people got elected to office bashing immigrants. But now as the economy hums along and immigrant labor is needed to keep it hot, the issue has fallen off the radar screen. Bob Hennelly reports.