Sotomayor nomination. “President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, moved closer to taking her seat on Tuesday as the Senate Judiciary Committee overwhelmingly approved her nomination and sent it on to the full Senate.”
Food stamps. “More retailers are accepting food stamps, as a record number of consumers are turning to government aid to pay for groceries. Nearly 39 million people received food stamps — now known as Electronic Benefit Transfers — in April 2009.”
Executions in China. “China plans to reduce the number of death sentences it hands out each year to 'an extremely small number' and to reserve executions for only the most serious offenders.”
Quote of the day. "Our takeaway is that even going into the recession, the economic outlook for a lot of families was dire. There was a flattening of the median income, and the poverty level was creeping up year after year." Laura Beavers, national coordinator of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s “Kids Count” annual assessment of children from low-income families, on this year’s report. (Washington Post)
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