Charitable Giving Is Up, But Only Among the Wealthy

Wealthy Americans are giving more to charity than ever before, while donations from low- and middle-income givers are falling. That trend could concentrate control of charitable giving in the U.S., according to the left-leaning Institute for Policy Studies think tank....

Nuclear-Dump Cleanup Gets Complicated

Among the added costs are further measures to prevent a “nuclear criticality.” That can occur if enough fissionable materials, such as bomb-grade uranium or plutonium, are brought together to produce a chain reaction, said Robert Alvarez, a former Energy Department...

The Morning Ledger: Executive Pay Under Fire

The liberal group said the tax code has become “a powerful enabler of bloated CEO pay” because of tax breaks and subsidies and “tax dollars are flowing from average Americans who depend on public services to the kingpins of America’s private...