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The House health reform bill would provide affordable, comprehensive health insurance coverage to 36 million Americans who otherwise would be uninsured, including millions of children and parents...
The House health bill is a strong bill, according to the Center’s new analysis. ...
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities New Podcast: Understanding the Senate Health Reform Bill http://www.cbpp.org/t184. On iTunes @ http://bit.ly/zc5j4
“…[H]aving enacted an economic recovery law early this year, policymakers should now focus on making sure they do whatever else they must to help revive the economy. Th...
"[W]ithout well-designed policies to offset the impact of…costs on low-income households' budgets, policies that are effective at controlling greenhouse gas emissions and achieving the benefits of fighting global warming could push more families into poverty and make many of those who already are p...
“The Senate Finance Committee’s approval of an ambitious health reform plan marks a major step toward enactment of legislation to extend health care to tens of millions of people who lack it, strengthen insurance protections for millions more who are underinsured or face exorbitant charges, and beg...
TABOR (misleadingly-named Taxpayer Bill of Rights) proposals on the ballot this fall in Maine and Washington would place rigid limits on state spending, forcing cuts to education, roads and highways, health care and other key services that support states’ economies and residents’ quality of lif...
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The Center’s International Budget Partnership (IBP) works to make developing countries' budgets more open to public participation and responsive to low-income communities. Watch the IBP’s new documentary film “It’s Our Money. Where’s It Gone?” at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2zKXqkrf
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In Kenya, members of parliament receive approximately one million dollars per year to spend on development projects in their constituencies through a scheme called the Constituency Development Fund. The ...
“Today’s jobs report shows that employers will need stronger evidence of a reviving economy before they will start adding workers to their payrolls. E...
