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    What to Pay?

    Aug 01, 2001 04:00 AM EST

    ZENA GARCIA: Couldn't pay the full bill of my light bill this month. I only paid partial. JEFFREY KAYE: So every month you get behind on one thing or another? ZENA GARCIA: Um-hmm. JEFFREY KAYE: To help people like Zena Garcia, advocates for the working poor have campaigned ...

  • Iraq crisis another foreign policy complication for Obama

    Iraq crisis another foreign policy complication for Obama

    Jun 13, 2014 01:39 PM EST

    ... President Obama for what kind of president Clinton would be both have to do with foreign policy -- and both indicate a slightly more hawkish, more interventionist approach. Clinton, a champion of “Smart Power,” also offered this when asked about a “Clinton doctrine”: three Ds -- defense, diplomacy, and development. McCarthy emerges ...

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    Will Taxes Be Sticking Point in Debate Over How to Tackle Federal Budget?

    Nov 09, 2012 11:02 PM EST

    ... of health care, we reduce the readmissions to hospitals, we do a better job on using technology, less tests. We manage the more complicated medical interventions. We reduce hospital infection rates. There's a lot of ways that you can reduce health care costs. By reducing health care costs, we ...

  • Black and Latino communities often have low vaccination rates – but blaming vaccine hesitancy misses the mark

    Black and Latino communities often have low vaccination rates – but blaming vaccine hesitancy misses the mark

    Jul 08, 2021 08:12 PM EST

    ... More directly impeded are community members who, like Angela in Idaho, skipped vaccination because she couldn’t risk having a negative reaction that might require intervention. Although a trip to the doctor is a highly unlikely outcome after a vaccine, it remains a concern for some. “My insurance doesn’t ...

  • Innovative program helps even the playing field for poor students — and boost graduation rates

    Innovative program helps even the playing field for poor students — and boost graduation rates

    Jun 28, 2016 11:11 PM EST

    ... University, just to cite one example, is developing a new system to give small grants to students who might be a little behind on their bills. APRIL BROWN: And educators across the country are taking a closer look at the school's other targeted interventions that have closed the graduation ...

  • WATCH: DC Mayor Bowser testifies to House committee as Congress weighs new laws for city

    WATCH: DC Mayor Bowser testifies to House committee as Congress weighs new laws for city

    Sep 18, 2025 07:50 PM EST

    ... offenses, many of them crimes involving current and former congressional staff members, including the fatal shooting of Congressional intern Eric Tarpinian-Jachym. “These high crime rates are largely driven by historically high rates of juvenile crime, which were enabled by ultra-progressive, soft on crime policies enacted by the D ...

  • Michigan lawmakers are considering a state-level MENA category. Here’s what that would mean

    Michigan lawmakers are considering a state-level MENA category. Here’s what that would mean

    Apr 04, 2024 06:57 PM EST

    ... bills will also protect the state’s interest in collecting this demographic information in case federal guidelines change in the future. “If we get these bills across the finish line this year, no matter what happens at the federal level, we will not have to worry about any change of ...

  • News Wrap: Israeli election exit polls show Netanyahu may return to power

    News Wrap: Israeli election exit polls show Netanyahu may return to power

    Nov 01, 2022 10:55 PM EST

    ... in prison. Halloween night gun violence has claimed the life of Grammy-nominated rapper Takeoff. One third of the group Migos and born Kirshnik Khari Ball, he was fatally shot outside a bowling alley in Houston early today. He was 28 years old. Hours earlier, in Chicago, a drive-by ...

  • UK scraps tax cut for wealthy that sparked market turmoil

    UK scraps tax cut for wealthy that sparked market turmoil

    Oct 03, 2022 05:53 PM EST

    ... to be paid for by government borrowing, sent the pound tumbling to a record low against the dollar. The Bank of England was forced to intervene to prop up the bond market, and fears that the bank will soon hike interest rates caused mortgage lenders to withdraw their cheapest deals ...

  • On LGBTQ+ Equal Pay Day, the U.S. still doesn’t know the size of the wage gap

    On LGBTQ+ Equal Pay Day, the U.S. still doesn’t know the size of the wage gap

    Jun 16, 2021 06:10 PM EST

    The United States has never captured how many cents on the white male dollar LGBTQ+ people earn on average, a decision that has prevented meaningful policy to address disparities.