| Downturn 'fuels unpaid overtime' [15 mins] The economic downturn is helping to drive record levels of unpaid overtime by workers fearing for their jobs, the TUC claims. | Obama taps spending watchdog, eyes Social Security (AP) [34 mins][Kansas] AP - Pointing with concern to "red ink as far as the eye can see, " President-elect Barack Obama pledged Wednesday to tackle out-of-control Social Security and Medicare spending and named a special watchdog to clamp down on other federal programs even as he campaigned anew to spend the largest pile of taxpayer money in history to revive the sinking economy. |