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... have very high smoking rates on the U.S. mainland, she said; Mexican-American women have very low rates. Latino men generally smoke at higher rates than Latina women. “You’re dealing with one-size-does-not-fit-all,” she said. In general, smoking rates are down significantly in recent ...
... me. JUDY WOODRUFF: So, tell us what the thrust of the administration's criminal justice reform efforts are. What are you trying to fix? SALLY YATES: Well, we're trying to accomplish a number of things. First, with the sentencing reform bill, we're really trying to bring proportionality back ...
... three Detroit children are living in extreme poverty... INDIRA LAKSHMANAN: Karen Bouffard of The Detroit News says the Motor City's alarmingly high childhood asthma rates map closely with some of the nation's most violent and impoverished neighborhoods. KAREN BOUFFARD: And about a quarter of children under 6 in ...
... be different from under No Child Left Behind is the federal government will not be in the business of deciding which schools need to be intervened in and how you're supposed to intervene in them. HARI SREENIVASAN: So, Bob Wise, one of the questions and one of the points ...
... a telecommunications service under Title II. What Wheeler doesn't mention is that the tax ban expires again in October. Unless Congress passes a permanent bill, as some lawmakers want, state governments are likely to start pushing back on this temporary relief bill, especially as landline revenues decline. It's ...
We collect data about how our economy is working -- GDP, the monthly unemployment number, poverty rates -- and then we collect data on how we feel the economy is working. There’s dour news on that front this week: most Americans (72 percent) think the economy is still in a recession ...
U.S. oil and natural gas output is soaring. But less than a decade ago, no one saw it coming. Even industry executives were signalling that production had peaked. But innovations that have made drilling technology "smaller, faster, lighter, denser, cheaper" have revolutionized the industry, says Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Robert Bryce, author of the new...
Today in the Morning Line: New carbon regulations put Democrats on the defensive in the short term Ernst has momentum in Iowa Poll shows McDaniel in the lead in Mississippi New rules: Let’s put aside the long-term moral arguments on climate change for a moment. The EPA’s expected announcement at 9 a.m. ET, followed by...
Economist Zvi Bodie, perhaps the country's foremost expert on pension finance, insists that every American at least consider an investment that financial advisors almost never mention. Photo by Peter Gridley/Getty Images. A note from Paul Solman: Zvi Bodie has influenced my thinking about financial economics for 20 years. He has also been my trusted --...
By Zvi Bodie Economist Zvi Bodie, perhaps the country's foremost expert on pension finance, insists that every American at least consider an investment that financial advisors almost never mention. Photo by Peter Gridley/Getty Images. A note from Paul Solman: Zvi Bodie has influenced my thinking about financial economics for 20 years. He has also been...
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