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Economist says renewed financial crisis looms unless government acts
Jan 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Another crippling financial crisis looms unless the U.S. government thaws credit markets that are starting to freeze up amid a lingering and deepening recession, a University of Illinois economist ...
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Main federal disaster relief law has fallen behind modern threat levels, study finds
Mar 13, 2009 |
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In new research published in the Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, New York University Professor Mitchell Moss explains that the cornerstone Federal disaster relief legislation, the Robert T. Stafford Act, i ...
Savings help the medicine go down
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jun 25, 2008 |
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[B]Prescription drug coverage for low income seniors reduces Medicaid[/B] A new study of state-subsidized pharmacy assistance programs showed that providing prescription drug coverage for low-income seniors reduces Medicaid and ...
'Chilling' hardship rates among families raising disabled children
Aug 18, 2008 |
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Families with disabled children are struggling to keep food on the table, a roof over their heads, and to pay for needed health and dental care. But according to a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel ...
60 percent of nuclear cancer cases denied
May 13, 2007 |
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Compensation has been denied in 60 percent of 72,000 cases processed by U.S. regulators involving Cold War nuclear weapons workers stricken with cancer.
Public support grows for spending on mass transit and infrastructure
Feb 10, 2009 |
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Public support is growing for expenditures on mass transit and infrastructure and remains high for education and health care, according to a National Opinion Research Center survey at the University of Chicago that has been ...
Research: No evidence for 'too big to fail' policies
Apr 24, 2009 |
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The U.S. economy would be better served by letting failing firms file for bankruptcy rather than by bailing them out under presumptive federal policies that deem them to be "too big to fail," according to ...
NIST Issues Open and Transparent Methods for Testing Electronic Voting Systems
Apr 01, 2009 |
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The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology today opened for public comment detailed new methods for testing future electronic voting systems' compliance with voluntary federal standards. ...
Medicare drug subsidy not automatic in '07
Oct 20, 2006 |
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Some low-income elderly and disabled people who received federal money for U.S. Medicare drug coverage must reapply for the assistance in 2007.
Belgian court fines Yahoo over fraud non-cooperation
Mar 02, 2009 |
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A Belgian court on Monday fined Internet search engine Yahoo! 55,000 euros (69,300 dollars) for failing to hand over personal details of users suspected of committing fraud.
National anti-gun violence program largely successful, study finds
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Project Safe Neighborhoods - a community-based policing effort launched in 2001 - has been largely successful in its goal of reducing violent crime, according to an analysis by Michigan State University, the national research ...
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