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One of our long-running political stories is the economic assault on the young by the old. Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid (programs wholly or primarily dedicated to the elderly) totaled $1.3 trillion, 43 percent of...
Tired old ideas — GOP tax cuts and tort reform, Democrats' profligate spending — won't fix our problems Bigger than the budget deficit, America has a leadership gap. Its economic miracle is engineered by Beijing buying hundreds...
The U.S. government is financing its more than trillion-dollar-a-year borrowing with IOUs on terms that seem too good to be true. But that happy situation - a result of interest rates dropping to extraordinary lows even as the...
Reid Unveils Senate Healthcare Plan Chicago Tribune Washington Bureau - Senate Majority Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Wednesday unveiled his long-awaited plan for expanding medical coverage to millions more Americans over the next...
Bloomberg - Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- New York Governor David Paterson, in a letter to lawmakers, said education and health-care expenditures must be cut as part of any plan to close this fiscal year’s $3.2 billion budget deficit.
Houston Chronicle Senate sets stage for historic health debate Houston Chronicle Dr. Thomas Parr, of Foundation Surgical Hospital in Bellaire, addresses a crowd Saturday at Westside Tennis and Fitness Club. The Million Med...
New York Times Opposing Claims Cloud the Debate on an Overhaul New York Times Over two days of debate on the Senate floor about the motion to move ahead with the major health care legislation, Democrats and Republicans fired...
Senate Clears Way to Debate Democrats' Healthcare Plan Chicago Tribune Washington Bureau - NOAM N. LEVEY Reporting from Washington Without a vote to spare, Democrats pushed their healthcare legislation over its first obstacle...
Posted Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009 By MARTHA MENDOZA and CATHERINE E. SHOICHET The Associated Press MEXICO CITY — Rising oil prices and increased exports are slowly dragging Mexico’s economy out of a severe recession, but the...
Americans save more but earn less People who rely on interest income are ‘getting killed’ by the low rates By STEVENSON JACOBS ASSOCIATED PRESS Daniel Acker Bloomberg Troubles on Wall Street terrified investors so that they...
