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Why So Many Ph.D.s Are On Food Stamps
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 8:22 AM EDT (NPR)
With the economic troubles of the past few years, it's no surprise that the number of people using food stamps is soaring. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that an average of 44 million people were on food assistance last year; that's up from 17 million in 2000. What …
Debt Ceiling Debate Is Revived In Washington[audio]
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 8:17 AM EDT (NPR)
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner warned on Tuesday that the U.S. will likely hit its debt limit sometime before the end of the year. At the same event in Washington, House Speaker John Boehner promised that any increase in the nation's debt ceiling would have to be accompani …
Insurers Face $1 Trillion Revenue at Stake in Health Law
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 8:13 AM EDT (Bloomberg.com)
Health insurers will gain $1 trillion in new revenue over the next eight years under the 2010 health- care law, assuming it’s upheld by the Supreme Court, according to a Bloomberg Government study. The amount is equal to about one-half percent of the nation’s estima …
America's Future Under 'Drill, Baby, Drill'
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 8:07 AM EDT (Center for American Progress)
The promise of abundant oil jobs was dangled before us as an incentive—despite the fact that clean energy industries were some of the only sectors to show strong growth at the height of the Great Recession, and 3.1 million jobs in the United States were associated with th …
The American Community Survey Is Under Attack
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 8:02 AM EDT (Center for American Progress)
Last week the GOP-led House of Representatives voted to end the American Community Survey, or ACS, the Census Bureau’s annual study of U.S. socioeconomic conditions. The largely party-line vote defied the advice of conservative think tank experts, the interests of the bus …
Why isn't Obama getting crushed right now?
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 7:54 AM EDT (The Washington Post)
Obama is the incumbent. The economy is growing at a moderate pace. There’s no serious third-party challenge. We’re not losing massive numbers of soldiers in a foreign war. And when you look at those fundamentals, the reality is this: Incumbent presidents very, very …
Wind-Generated Energy Is Working Well For Us in Iowa
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 8:50 AM EDT (Wall Street Journal)
The wind-power industry is an American success story that is helping us build our manufacturing base, create jobs, lower energy costs and strengthen our energy security. As a country, we should support energy diversity and development of all domestic resources, creating an "al …
Tea Partiers Backing Scott Walker May Run Afoul of IRS
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 7:43 AM EDT (MotherJones.com)
Tea Party Patriots could prove to be a formidable force in Wisconsin given the size of its fundraising machine; Martin recently bragged that the group raised $12 million last year. And that could be problematic. As a nonprofit group, TPP is banned from devoting the bulk o …
Charter School Lobby Group Quits ALEC Two Days After Being Identified By Republic Report
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 7:35 AM EDT ()
NACSA worked closely with ALEC to promote charter schools. As we’ve reported, ALEC legislation allows for-profit charter school companies to siphon tens of millions of taxpayer dollars. In many cases, the ALEC-authored legislation provides for unproven online school compa …
Record-setting 2012 warmth largely confined to North America, western Europe
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 7:18 AM EDT (Ars Technica)
In March, high temperatures over two-thirds of the continental US set numerous records and made it the nation's warmest March on record. April has been no slouch either, as high temperature records have continued to fall. But at the time of our last report, the services that tr …
Global push to guarantee healthcare coverage leaves U.S. behind
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 11:42 AM EDT (The L.A. Times)
Even as Americans debate whether to scrap President Obama's healthcare law and its promise of guaranteed health coverage, many far less affluent nations are moving in the opposite direction — to provide medical insurance to all citizens. China, after years of underfundin …
The Average White Guy Vote
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 7:24 AM EDT (RealClearPolitics)
Rudy is the quintessential average white guy, right down to his last name. "It literally is Guy," he said, laughing at the irony. Born in New Eagle and raised in Charleroi in Pennsylvania's Monongahela Valley, Guy comes from a long line of Democrats. "My grandfather worked at …
In Florida, Registering Voters A Whole New Game
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 7:16 AM EDT (NPR)
Six months before the presidential election, the Florida ground game is already underway. In political terms, the ground game is the process of mobilizing voters and getting them to the polls. And the first step is registering people to vote. But in Florida this year, there a …
Paul Ryan Suggests We Need To Shred America's Safety Net Because Rich People Give Politicians Money
Seeded on Wed May 9, 2012 10:19 AM EDT (Think Progress)
“Every other country in the world calls it bribery. We call it campaign financing.” “That’s BS,” a constituent told Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) during a town hall Friday. “I don’t think you or any of the rest of the politicians want to fix&rd …
Court Strikes Blow To Illinois Eavesdropping Law
Seeded on Wed May 9, 2012 9:54 AM EDT (The Huffington Post)
In a blow to Illinois' sweeping eavesdropping law, a federal appeals court on Tuesday blocked its enforcement in cases where someone is recording a police officer at work. It was a victory for activists who had feared that using smartphones or video cameras to record police re …
Health Care Increasingly Out Of Reach For Millions Of Americans
Seeded on Tue May 8, 2012 9:31 AM EDT ()
Having trouble finding a doctor? You’re not alone.Tens of millions of adults under 65 — both those with insurance and those without — saw their access to health care dramatically worsen over the past decade, according to a study released Monday. The findings …
High uninsured rates can kill you — even if you have coverage
Seeded on Tue May 8, 2012 8:36 AM EDT (The Washington Post)
Across the state, however, there was huge variation in how health outcomes were improving: San Francisco and Los Angeles had decreases between 26 percent and 30 percent, while in Sacramento, the drop was just 13 percent. Daysal wanted to know what was different about the patien …
The Real Voter Registration Numbers
Seeded on Tue May 8, 2012 7:38 AM EDT (Black America Web)
The Washington Post recently published a story ("Voter registration down among Hispanics, blacks" May 4th, 2012) that inaccurately claimed that the number of African American and Hispanic registered voters has fallen sharply since 2008; it has not. One of the most important su …
Why Nuclear Experts Are Calling Fukushima a Ticking Time-Bomb
Seeded on Tue May 8, 2012 7:25 AM EDT (Truthout - All Articles)
The spent fuel in the hobbled unit 4 at Fukushima Daiichi not only sits in an elevated pool outside the reactor core's reinforced containment, in a high-consequence earthquake zone adjacent to the ocean -- just as nearly all the spent fuel at the nuclear site is stored -- but i …
Government Is Getting Smaller in the U.S
Seeded on Mon May 7, 2012 12:42 PM EDT (The New York Times)
Spending by the federal government, adjusted for inflation, has risen at a slow rate under President Obama. But that increase has been more than offset by a fall in spending by state and local governments, which have been squeezed by weak tax receipts. In the first quarter of …
Republicans Renege on Debt Deal
Seeded on Mon May 7, 2012 12:19 PM EDT (Talking Points Memo)
As Congress returns from recess this week, House Republicans are set to advance legislation to replace automatic defense spending cuts they agreed to last year with cuts to programs for the poor and working class. The controversial measure is expected to pass the House and die …
Private-Sector Jobs Bounce Back Under Obama
Seeded on Mon May 7, 2012 11:59 AM EDT (Center for American Progress)
In the first year of President Barack Obama’s term, the country lost about 4.2 million private-sector jobs. But as of last month there are now more private-sector jobs in the United States than there were in January 2009, when President Obama took office. You read that ri …
Jobs Growth Continues in April, but Congress Needs to Help Make Sure It Lasts
Seeded on Mon May 7, 2012 11:53 AM EDT (Center for American Progress)
The economy continues to move in the right direction. It added 115,000 jobs in April, and data for February and March were revised upward by a total of 53,000 jobs. April marks the 26th straight month of gains in private-sector employment, for a total of 4.2 million private-sec …
U.S. health care spending 'dwarfs' that of other countries
Seeded on Fri May 4, 2012 12:09 PM EDT (Politico)
The United States spends more on health care than 12 other industrialized countries, a new Commonwealth Fund study finds – but that doesn’t mean this country’s care is any better. The U.S. spent nearly $8,000 per person for health care services in 2009, the s …
$16 Million Later, Scott Walker's Still Deadlocked in Recall Fight
Seeded on Fri May 4, 2012 12:03 PM EDT (MotherJones.com)
Gov. Scott Walker and his conservative allies have spent nearly $17 million to boost his candidacy in Wisconsin's looming recall election. What have they got to show for it? Nothing, according to a new Marquette University Law School poll. Despite all the TV ads attacking Dem …
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Romney presses Obama on debt with aid of prop clock
ST. PETERSBURG, FL -- Mitt Romney continued to drive a debt-oriented message here on Wednesday morning, extending his "prairie fire" of debt metaphor with the assistance of a prop. In a nod to the independent voters who pushed the Sunshine State into the Democratic column …
Why So Many Ph.D.s Are On Food StampsWith the economic troubles of the past few years, it's no surprise that the number of people using food stamps is soaring. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that an average of 44 million people were on food assistance last year; that's up from 17 million in 2000. What …
- Debt Ceiling Debate Is Revived In Washington[audio]
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner warned on Tuesday that the U.S. will likely hit its debt limit sometime before the end of the year. At the same event in Washington, House Speaker John Boehner promised that any increase in the nation's debt ceiling would have to be accompani …
- Insurers Face $1 Trillion Revenue at Stake in Health Law
Health insurers will gain $1 trillion in new revenue over the next eight years under the 2010 health- care law, assuming it’s upheld by the Supreme Court, according to a Bloomberg Government study. The amount is equal to about one-half percent of the nation’s estima …
- America's Future Under 'Drill, Baby, Drill'
The promise of abundant oil jobs was dangled before us as an incentive—despite the fact that clean energy industries were some of the only sectors to show strong growth at the height of the Great Recession, and 3.1 million jobs in the United States were associated with th …
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Romney presses Obama on debt with aid of prop clock
Why So Many Ph.D.s Are On Food Stamps
Why So Many Ph.D.s Are On Food Stamps
Why So Many Ph.D.s Are On Food Stamps
Why So Many Ph.D.s Are On Food Stamps
The American Community Survey Is Under Attack
Why So Many Ph.D.s Are On Food Stamps
Why So Many Ph.D.s Are On Food Stamps
Debt Ceiling Debate Is Revived In Washington[audio]
Insurers Face $1 Trillion Revenue at Stake in Health Law