Today marks the start of shrimp season on the Louisiana coast and it comes with some uncertainty about what the catch will be like this year after that underwater oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The leak has been capped for over a month now, but it’s unclear how the oil that remains in the Gulf waters will effect the quality or quantity of the ocean harvest. Source Link
The economic downturn of the Great Recession is being felt in the coffers of the Social Security trust fund. Officials say unemployment has meant that program costs will outstrip declining tax revenues for 2010 and 2011, but collections should rebound in 2012. The long-term outlook calls for the trust fund to be exhausted in the year 2037. Source Link
Does tweeting and posting on Facebook make a company more trustworthy? A new survey says three out of four people are more trusting of companies that use social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook than those that do not. The findings come as companies like BP and Toyota have used social networking site to counter bad publicity. Source Link
