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Topic: Domestic Policy

  
EASYTOINSUREME   |  Comment

Health Insurance Quote Reform Weekly EasyToInsureME

BY Chad Levin
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Sep 18, 2009 at 4:13 PM

This Week in Health Care ReformREAD»

AUTOMOTIVE DIGITAL MARKETING   |  Comment

Public Option for Health Care Bill Rejected by Senate Panel

BY Brian Pasch
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Oct 6, 2009 at 1:10 PM

Republicans and democrats vote against the latest attempts to include a government-run public health insurance option.READ»

AGRICULTURE   |  Comment

FAO: Farmers need fertilizers to fight famine

BY Vatren Jurin
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 10:17 PM

FAO: Farmers need fertilizers to fight famine (12/13/2007)   A leader of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations says he doesn't ...READ»

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CONSUMER PRODUCTS   |  1 comment

Everything You Need to Know About the Stimulus Is Online

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Feb 3, 2009 at 6:06 PM

If you listen to the news, you'd think that President Obama's $819 billion stimulus package was drawn up in watercolor. What will get funded? Which states will get money? What are the parameters? A new website launched this week ...READ»

EASYTOINSUREME   |  Comment

Health Insurance Quote Reform Weekly EasyToInsureME

BY EasytoinsureMe Levin
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Oct 9, 2009 at 2:36 PM

This week, legislators from the Senate Finance Committee waited for the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to provide a cost estimate for the revised health care reform bill before bringing the legislation to a committee vote, now expected to take place next week.READ»

HEALTH INSURANCE   |  1 comment

Small business insurance and the public option

BY Sandra Cohen
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Oct 15, 2009 at 12:22 PM

Small business owners, like the country at large, are also seemingly divided on health care reform.READ»

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Health Insurance Reform EasyToInsureME

BY Chad Levin
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Oct 15, 2009 at 12:41 PM

Senate The long-awaited cost estimate of the Senate Finance Committee’s health care reform proposal, “America’s Healthy Future Act,” was released this week by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).READ»

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Health Insurance Quote Reform Weekly EasyToInsureME 9/11/09

BY Chad Levin
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Sep 11, 2009 at 3:42 PM

Lawmakers returned to Washington this week after a heated August recess to continue to negotiate health care reform. Americans remain sharply divided on legislation: In a Gallup Poll released Tuesday, 39% of those polled say they would direct their member of Congress to vote against a health care reform bill this fall, while 37% want their member to vote in favor of a health care reform bill.READ»

CAREER DEVELOPMENT   |  Comment

The Status of the Stimulus Plan (2)

BY Laurence Shatkin
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Oct 15, 2009 at 3:24 PM

In mid-June, I posted a blog entry about the status of the stimulus plan, which I have been following closely ever since writing a book about it (Great Jobs in the President’s Stimulus Plan). I rushed out this book before the ...READ»

HEALTH INSURANCE   |  Comment

Health Insurance Quote Reform Weekly EasyToInsureME

BY Chad Levin
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Oct 2, 2009 at 3:34 PM

rejection of two amendments, one from Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and one from Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY), that would have incorporated a public option in the bill.READ»

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The Farm Bill: Who Wins?


Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Mar 22, 2007 at 5:15 PM

Cotton farmers in Africa work their fields by hand, without the tractors and irrigation systems of their wealthier Western counterparts. If there's a drought, there's no cotton. If monkeys or worms destroy their crops, there's no ...READ»

ECONOMY   |  Comment

Optimism and Hope

BY jose Roncal
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Jan 30, 2009 at 1:07 PM

27 January 2009 Jose D. Roncal www.financialspeculation.com  We're now in the second week of the new Obama administration and his approval ratings are still hovering at a high 68%.  In spite of facing enormous challenges, or more ...READ»

HEALTH INSURANCE QUOTE HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM   |  1 comment

Health Insurance Quote Reform Weekly EasyToInsureME 8/28/09

BY Chad Levin
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Aug 28, 2009 at 3:43 PM

This Week in Health Care Reform This week, Sen. Ted Kennedy, longtime champion of universal health coverage, died at age 77. It remains to be seen how his death will affect the debate over health care reform as Democrats continue efforts without his guidance. Sen. Kennedy READ»

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FCC   |  5 comments

FCC to Probe Wireless Industry, Putting Carriers and Device Makers in Hot Seat

BY Clay Dillow
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Fri Aug 28, 2009 at 11:42 AM

Months of grumbling by consumer and trade groups and whispers of a possible FCC probe have culminated in exactly that, as the Federal Communications Commission voted yesterday to launch a broad investigation into the wireless ...READ»

BANKING   |  Comment

The Big Bank Balancing Act

BY jose Roncal
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 3:12 PM

16 January 2009 Jose D. Roncal www.financialspeculation.com I remember the good old days when banks used to lend money to “we the people.” Now we’re being forced to lend money to them. Not so long ago, banks were eager to get ...READ»

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NET NEUTRALITY   |  1 comment

FCC Embraces Net Neutrality, Enforces It On ISPs

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Sep 21, 2009 at 10:28 AM

The FCC is embracing rules that enforce Net neutrality on ISPs, and in a surprisingly open way.READ»

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ENERGY SPRAWL   |  2 comments

Energy Sprawl: Will Solar and Wind Farms Become Ghost Malls of Tomorrow?

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Aug 26, 2009 at 10:41 AM

Have you noticed the rapid proliferation of clean energy projects in the past few years? All those projects take up land. Now a paper from the Nature Conservancy predicts that the Waxman-Markey climate change bill could have the ...READ»

ECONOMY   |  Comment

By Any Other Name, it's Still the Same

BY jose Roncal
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Sun Aug 23, 2009 at 3:42 PM

Jose D. Roncalwww.financialspeculation.comNationalization. The word makes one shudder!  It might even drudge up old images of the hammer and sickle or Mao's men marching in khaki uniforms!  We've already mentioned the ...READ»

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What the Foreign Web Says about Our Economy

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Jan 28, 2009 at 3:21 PM

Read The New York Times, The Washington Post, or the domestic cable news websites, and you'd think the American economy was combusting before our eyes. Foreign newspapers, however, are much more sanguine on their English-language ...READ»

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Hennion and Walsh News: Treasuries - Bonds Fall As Bailout Hopes Pare Safety Bids

BY Hennion and Walsh
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Thu Jan 29, 2009 at 2:31 PM

"A lot will hinge on the passage of a rescue plan, the sooner the better. It remains an uncertainty in the market," said Kevin Mahn, chief investment officer at Hennion & Walsh Inc. in Parsippany, New Jersey.READ»

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The Status of the Stimulus Plan

BY Laurence Shatkin
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Jun 11, 2009 at 10:15 AM

I was supposed to be a guest on the Today Show earlier this week to speak about job-hunting, specifically the effects on jobs of the stimulus package--the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. But I had to bow out because ...READ»

ECONOMY   |  Comment

Bad Banks? Bad Idea?

BY jose Roncal
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Feb 2, 2009 at 12:37 PM

30 January 2009 Jose D. Roncal www.financialspeculation.com Lawmakers are looking for a quick fix for the banking and credit markets. No fix will be clean or easy. Every option comes with big hits to taxpayers, partisan bickering ...READ»

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CLEANTECH   |  2 comments

How the Stimulus Package will help Small, Green Businesses Help us All

BY Glenn Croston
Relevancy Score: 100
Sun Feb 1, 2009 at 12:54 PM

What's small and green and will get the economy moving again?READ»

ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS   |  Comment

Obama's Stimulus Package May Lead to a Medical Records Bonanza

BY David York
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Apr 2, 2009 at 4:01 PM

A two-year window spurred by the new Administration's providing economic stimulus funding for purchasing EMR software could lead to a veritable "bonanza" as clinicians rush to take advantage prior to January 1, 2011, when the money kicks in.READ»

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Welfare-to-Work and the Stimulus

BY Laurence Shatkin
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Feb 12, 2009 at 1:09 PM

I have been paying more attention to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 than to most legislation, largely because it is the focus of my latest book, Great Jobs in the President’s Stimulus Plan. As the title ...READ»

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