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Opinion: Can We Afford to Ignore Rising Child Poverty?

(Oct. 19) -- The official arbiters have spoken: The Great Recession ended in the middle of last year. Unfortunately, this decree seems a bit hollow as new evidence of pervasive hardship continues to appear on a daily basis. Take a look at the poverty numbers recently released by the Census Bureau. Almost 44 million...

Social Security Turns 75: How Healthy Is It?

WASHINGTON (Aug. 12) -- Is Social Security showing its age? When President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed "old-age" benefits into law on Aug. 14, 1935, nearly half of men and almost 40 percent of women died before they were old enough to cash in. The program later grew to include disability benefits and Medicare, which...

Opinion: Health Care Needs 'Public Option'

(Nov. 30) -- As the Senate takes up health care reform this week, a key sticking point will be the "public option" -- a government-run insurance plan that is supposed to help keep costs down by providing competitive pressure to private insurers. But a new report from the nonpartisan Urban Institute concludes that the...

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