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... of Dimes, as you mentioned, what we care about is the health of pregnant women and their babies. And our main concern with the Senate bill, as it's proposed, is that it would put at risk the health of many of those women and their babies. Medicaid today covers ...
... HARI SREENIVASAN: Most of the attention around the big biomedical bill signed by President Obama today has focused on faster drug approval and new money for research, but it's a huge piece of legislation. And one key part that's received less attention is the attempt to improve ...
... Fed, America's Central Bank, has kept interest rates rock-bottom low, by buying up Treasury bonds, mortgage bonds, all sorts of IOUs. The low rates were meant to induce spending and investment. MAN: Mortgage rates are among the lowest they have been in generations. PAUL SOLMAN: And, yes, economic ...
Keynes was an influential policy analyst and economist who lived from 1883 to 1946. His seminal work, "The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money," became a founding force behind modern macroeconomics after it was published in 1936. Keynes supported government intervention during times of economic turmoil. Among the theories ...
... finally learned more about that plan, and it looks to be very different from the deployments in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said Friday that the troops will be part of a surge of resources to fight crime in the city that includes 13 federal ...
... States since 2000. The Texas outbreak started in late January in West Texas' Mennonite communities that have been resistant to vaccines and distrustful of government intervention, and the highly contagious virus quickly jumped to other places with low vaccination rates. Like many states, Texas requires children to obtain vaccines to ...
... student loan debt, and so much of it remains unpaid and unserviced. What happens if that comes back online and everybody is stuck with a bill again? That's an economic shock of its own kind. The good news is, the Fed took up rates by a chunky, what, 4 ...
The changes, made at the urging of Senate Majority Leader Tom Takubo, who is a physician, would allow some transgender youth to continue receiving medical interventions under certain circumstances, including hormone therapy if they experience severe gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria is defined by medical professionals as severe psychological distress experienced ...
So far this year, there have already been 154 mass shootings in the United States. And new data shows the leading cause of death among children in 2020 was gun-related injuries. Geoff Bennett spoke with Jennifer Mascia, a reporter for The Trace, a nonpartisan, nonprofit newsroom focused on America's gun violence crisis.
The images — men on horseback with long reins, corralling Haitian asylum seekers trying to cross into the U.S. from Mexico — provoked an outcry. But Haitian Americans, Black immigrant advocates and civil rights leaders say it's just the latest in a long history of discriminatory U.S. policies and of indignities faced by Black people.
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