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Monday, 27 June 2011
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Washington, DC, USA. Because strong evidence indicates that policies beyond the health sector have substantial effects on people's health, all levels of U.S. government should adopt a structured approach to considering the health effects of any major legislation or regulation, says a new report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM).
In addition, federal and state policymakers should review and revise public health laws so that they adequately address current health challenges.
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Pamela M. Prah (Stateline) Saturday, 25 June 2011 Washington, DC, USA. Welfare isn't a big item in state budgets, but it's an easy one to go after because the states are in charge. Trimming Medicaid is much more complicated: The federal government has a veto.
Welfare advocates in Oregon were confounded this spring when they discovered that Governor John Kitzhaber wanted to limit to 18 the number of months welfare families could get cash benefits over their lifetimes — a stricter limit than existed anywhere in the country.
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Josh Goodman (Stateline) Friday, 24 June 2011 Washington, DC, USA. Next week starts a new fiscal year for most states. Are their new budgets truly balanced? It depends on how you do the math.
Last week, California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed a budget that he said was filled with gimmicks — or as he put it, “legally questionable maneuvers, costly borrowing and unrealistic savings.”
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John Gramlich (Stateline) Thursday, 23 June 2011 Washington, DC, USA. Legislators in at least six states — mainly the GOP South — approved significant restrictions on lawsuit filers, seeking to reduce the number of costly payouts that businesses and doctors consider unfair.
For the last two decades, Larry Mocha has had a simple request for lawmakers in his home state of Oklahoma: make it harder for people to file lawsuits against businesses.
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 Stephen C. Fehr (Stateline) Wednesday, 22 June 2011 Washington, DC, USA. This year, many states were poised to switch from traditional pension plans to a kind similar to the ones popular in the private sector. That didn’t happen.
But states did cut employee benefits, raised the retirement age and increased the amount that public workers were expected to contribute to their own pensions.
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 Daniel C. Vock (Stateline) Tuesday, 21 June 2011 Washington, DC, USA. Three governors have pulled their states out of a federal immigration enforcement program because few of the people being deported were convicted of serious criminal offenses.
Data show that an even greater proportion of low-level offenders have been deported from other states.
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Josh Goodman (Stateline) Tuesday, 14 June 2011 Washington, DC, USA. “Today marks the beginning of a very dark week at The School District of Philadelphia,” began a press release issued last Monday by the District itself.
No doubt many Philadelphia school employees would agree. That day, the ... |
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TS-Si News Service Tuesday, 14 June 2011 Tel Aviv, Israel. A research team in Israel investigated what went awry in an apparently random system that led to the current financial crisis, incorporating time variation of human factors into mathematical analysis.
The failure of traditional eco... |
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John Gramlich (Stateline) Monday, 13 June 2011 Washington, DC, USA. Republicans held enormous political leverage in state legislatures this year. They used it to shrink spending, take on labor unions and push long-stalled social legislation in one of the most eventful legislative years in memory.... |
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TS-Si News Service Sunday, 12 June 2011 Providence, RI, USA. Voters in states with early primary races such as Iowa and New Hampshire have up to five times the influence of voters in later states in selecting presidential candidates.
Politicians and campaign managers have become increasin... |
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TS-Si News Service Saturday, 11 June 2011 Philadelphia, PA, USA. A recent study suggests that politically savvy professionals who use ingratiation as a career aid may also avoid the psychological distress that comes to others who are less cunning about their workplace behavior.
Savvy career... |
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TS-Si News Service Thursday, 09 June 2011 Philadelphia, PA, USA. The odds are nearly 50/50 that two people taken at random in either a red or blue state would actually have more in common than suggested by claims of widespread political polarization.
A new study examined the perception of a... |
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Daniel C. Vock (Stateline) Thursday, 09 June 2011 Washington, DC, USA. Interstates need money for repairs, and charging toll fees can bring in a lot of it. But the federal government is cool to the idea.
The 40-mile stretch of Interstate 95 that serves as Rhode Island’s transportation backbone i... |
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John Gramlich (Stateline) Wednesday, 08 June 2011 Carson City, NV, USA. With days remaining in the legislative session, Nevada’s Republican governor and Democratic-led Legislature locked in stalemate over the state budget. The Nevada Supreme Court stepped in with a ruling that may change the way a... |
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TS-Si News Service Tuesday, 07 June 2011 Columbus, OH, USA. Many young adults are not stressed by owing money, but actually feel empowered by their credit card and education debts.
Researchers found that the more credit card and college loan debt held by young adults aged 18 to 27, the hig... |
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 TS-Si News Service Monday, 06 June 2011 Topeka, KS, VA, USA. An unusually high number of states are debating merging the functions and offices of state government. But consolidation is often easier to do on the organizational chart than it is in real life.
When Sam Brownback took over as ... |
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Josh Goodman (Stateline) Sunday, 05 June 2011 St. Paul, MN, USA. This is the time of year when many state capitols are consumed by talk of budget stalemates and possible closure of government agencies. But the worst rarely happens.
If history is a guide, only a handful of states will end up fai... |
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Matt McKillop (Stateline) Friday, 03 June 2011 Columbia, SC, USA. A war among giant retailers that animated South Carolina politics the past few months has tipped in the direction of one of the most aggressive competitors: Amazon.com.
Despite determined opposition from big retail chains and most... |
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