Oct. 26, 2011 — A New York Times/CBS News poll released today confirmed that Americans, by overwhelming margins, believe that there is too much income and wealth inequality (66 to 26 percent), that...view
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Perils of incrementalism: the demise of the ACA's promise of affordable insurance for long-term care
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Aging, Health care, Legislation
Oct. 19, 2011 — The abandonment of the element of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that was designed to provide insurance against the staggering costs of long-term care, announced by the Obama...view
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Politics
Oct. 5, 2011 — It’s a long road to get into many professions, let alone get to the top of those professions. For an attorney, it takes three years of law school after four years of college to...view
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Budget deficit, Economy, Politics
August 4, 2011 — Despite widespread belief to the contrary, the agreement on the debt ceiling does not mean that there is a budget deal in place through 2012, and does not guarantee that government...view
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Budget deficit
July 13, 2011 — You can’t go five minutes without reading press accounts that characterize the Obama-Boehner budgetary prescription — now’s the time to start on $4 trillion in debt reduction — as “...view
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Housing, NYC, Politics
June 22, 2011 — New York Governor Andrew Cuomo may describe a tentative deal on extending rent regulation for millions of New York City tenants as one representing “significant progress,” but the...view
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Social Security
Jun. 17, 2011 — AARP, newly receptive to some cuts in social security benefits, will be embarking soon on a public relations campaign to convince its membership — the overwhelming majority of which...view
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Education, Health care, Labor, NYC
June 15, 2011 — As originally reported by the New York Daily News, New York City is in talks with its unions to avoid teacher firings and other budget cutbacks by means of taking hundreds of...view
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Banking, Housing, Regulation
June 8, 2011 — As most recently reported in The New York Times, the Obama Administration’s foreclosure prevention effort “does include programs to help unemployed homeowners, but they have been...view
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Education
March 30, 2010 — U.S. colleges and universities continue to be world leaders. Annual surveys of higher education consistently rank a disproportionate number of American institutions in the top 100...view