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• Bend the Revenue Curve – Health Reform Alone Wont End Deficits ( Brookings advocates for VAT )

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  Anyone who thinks that health-care reform alone is going to close the massive current -- and even larger projected -- U.S. budget deficit is deluded. President Obama has pledged that health-care reform will not make matters worse. But that isnt good enough. There is no way to restore this nation to fiscal health ...
  22 hours ago

• Health Care Financing Reform: (70) Savings in Medicare Advantage

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 133
       One of the principal cost-cutting reforms that both the House and the Senate health care bills would enact is to reduce unnecessary spending on Medicare Advantage.  This is explained below.      Ezra Klein of the Washington Post described the problem with Medicare Advantage in an article that he ...
  5 days ago

• Health Care Financing Reform: (69) The Brookings Institute Study on "Bending the Curve" – Four General Strategies

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 133
       In September of 2009 the Brookings Institute issued a study entitled " Bending the Curve: Effective Steps to Address Long-Term Health Care Spending Growth ."  I apologize for overlooking this report until now.  The recommendations from the report are set forth below.      It has been estimated that ...
  6 days ago

• Oregon Coast

  
  Six Chix — Authority: 117
  Painted bear outside Brookings, OR store Stopped in Brookings, Oregon a month ago.  It is at the southernmost Oregon Coast  Their downtown had several painted bears in front of the shops. Painted Pirate Bear Here’s a pirate bear with a monkey. Tsunami Warning Sign These signs are all along the western ...
  1 week ago

• Obama’s job approval rating dips below 50% for first time in his presidency

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Nov. 21 (ANI): Amid rising unemployment and growing unpopularity for his health care reform plan, Barack Obama’s job approval rating has gone below 50 percent for the first time in his presidency, a Gallup survey has found. After dropping to 49 percent in the national survey conducted this week, Obama ...
  1 week ago

• Mesa Mayor to Participate in Forum on Fiscal Challenges Facing Cities

  
  Phoenix Arizona Real Estate Local News and Business Directory — Authority: 510
  Mesa Mayor Smith to Participate on Brookings panel in Washington, DCMesa, AZ – Mesa Mayor Scott Smith has been invited to participate in a forum sponsored by the Brookings Institute... This is a summary of the article. For the complete article, please visit the site. Thank you http://www.evliving.com/
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• Race to the Top fails to redirect stream of bad teachers sent to low-income schools

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 653
  A recent New York Times editorial points out that Race to the Top — U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s $4.3 billion tool for reform—has failed to address one key reform area:  a longstanding practice of allowing school districts to shunt inexperienced, unqualified teachers to low-income schools in ...
  1 week ago

• Brookings Institution needs a Webmaster

  
  The Pulse — Authority: 133
  The Brookings Institution is looking for a Web and Communications Coordinator . In the Institutes JournalismJobs.com listing , the job is described as: Basic Function Coordinates content for Foreign Policy (FP) program web site pages and maintains information structure for FP-related web content. Provides ...
  1 week ago

• Op-Ed Columnist: What the Future May Hold

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 906
  Bob Herbert
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• How the Democrats might privatize and cut Social Security

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 124
  After Bush’s 2005 fiasco, Democrats and Republicans will join hands to privatize and cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid in a more subtle way. Don’t let your guard down! Note: This was written in June and July of 2008, before Obama was even a presidential candidate, let alone elected. It was also written ...
  1 week ago

• A Brookings index of How Were Doing

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 962
  The economys expansion last quarter, for the first time in more than a year, has prompted much speculation that the recession is over. This turning point, however, simply marks an end to the decline in activity. The unemployment rate is at the highest level since the early 1980s, and full...
  2 weeks ago

• University architecture reflects freemason legacy

  
  Student Life — Authority: 487
  Graham Chapel is filled with the influence of the Freemasons. The pillars, King Solomon in the eastern window, and the hexagrams in the windows are all symbols of Freemasonry. (Matt Lee | Student Life) With lore about the Freemasons sensationalized in novelist Dan Brown’s latest book, “The Lost Symbol,” ...
  2 weeks ago

• Frenemies

  
  The New Republic - Health Care Feed — Authority: 729
  Last week’s U.S.-EU annual summit differed from its predecessors in ways that fuel the perception on the other side of the Atlantic that Barack Obama is just not that interested in Europe. First, there was the venue of the opening lunch: Blair House, the government’s official guest house, not the usual White ...
  2 weeks ago

• Carbon Footprint Study: 100 Largest U.S. Cities Look To Public Transit As Key

  
  BASIL & SPICE--LIVING GREEN! — Authority: 131
  Michael Grosvenor-- Finally, we seem to be getting a better handle on the influential role that urban form plays in contributing to the global environmental crisis. The sooner decision makers realize that where we live and what we live in is fundamental to how much greenhouse gas we personally emit (the suburban ...
  2 weeks ago

• NevBio and CEO-CFO Rec’s Brookings Talk on Automotive Fuel – Nov 12

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 138
  NevBio and CEO-CFO Group Recommends:   “Automotive Fuel Economy and American Politics” Dr. Pietro Nivola, Brookings Scholar Free Lecture Thursday, November 12th at 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM UNLV’ s New Science & Engineering Bldg Auditorium (Near Ham Hall) No Charge – Public Lecture -4505 S. ...
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• WHAT’S THE REAL COST OF GLOBAL WARMING TAXES?, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

  
  Center for Global Food Issues — Authority: 108
  CHURCHVILLE, VA—The leftish Brookings Institution and the U. S. Chamber of Commerce basically agree that the energy taxes in the House Waxman-Markey bill could total $9 trillion over ten years. As an economist, I look at these forecasts and wonder “How can we possibly know?”      These estimates ...
  3 weeks ago

• Housing Rebound? Not So Fast

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 568
  Housing Rebound? Not So Fast by Mike Whitney / November 2nd, 2009 Senate Democrats are a dogged bunch. And they’re not easily deterred from their primary duty of kowtowing the big banks. Case in point, the first-time home-buyer tax credit, the controversial bill which provides an $8,000 tax credit (re: subsidy) ...
  3 weeks ago

• MacArthur says it bucks on-time trend

  
  Long Island Business News — Authority: 488
  Officials at Long Island  MacArthur Airport are not happy with the Brookings Institution.In a recent report on air travel trends, the Washington-based think tank crammed LIMA in with LaGuardia, Newark and John F. Kennedy International Airports in analyzing airport congestion, cancellations and delays.Not fair, said ...
  4 weeks ago

• Well-Intentioned Brookings Report Falls Short on Solutions

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 143
  If the Brookings/Kenan report proves one thing, it is that immigration policy is extremely complex, and even the best intentions could have harmful unintended consequences. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  4 weeks ago

• America’s 100 Largest Metro Economies

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 640
  Alternative graph with California on the right axis:BUSINESS WEEK (”The U.S. Metros Least Touched by Recession”) - America’s strongest economies have one thing in common — home prices that never got too hot or too cold (see charts above comparing the home price index in...
  4 weeks ago

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