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1.12.2011

State of Homelessness in America 2011

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The National Alliance to End Homeless has released a new report which "reveals national and state level homeless counts, but also del...
12.13.2010

Need For Actions to Reduce and Adapt

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America's Climate Choices, a series of congressionally-mandated studies, emphasizes why the U.S. should act now to reduce greenhouse gas...
8.24.2010

Don't raise SS retirement age

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In a Fact Sheet issued today, the Economic Policy Institute ( EPI ) gives ten reasons not to raise the retirement age for Social Security. ...
8.17.2010

More on CDHPs

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Last week FR published a post on consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs). Yesterday, the Government Accountability Office ( GAO ) released a...
8.13.2010

Digital lending library

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The Internet Archive , a nonprofit based in San Francisco, was founded in 1996 "to build an Internet library." According to its w...
8.09.2010

Consumer-driven health plans

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Consumer-driven health plans are offered by self-insured employers and administered by a third-party. They include health reimbursement arr...
8.05.2010

Long-term care generosity index

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According to a report issued this week by the Rockefeller Institute of Government on Medicaid and long-term care, states vary widely in the...
7.29.2010

Cloud in government

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In April Darrell West , Director of Brookings Governance Studies , authored a report on how cloud computing could cut costs for the federal ...
7.28.2010

Just in ... on education

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In The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education , Diane Ravitch , Research Profe...
7.23.2010

Seniors: help for financial decisions

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Noting that most retirees have acquired significant assets as well as debts, and that cognitive decline afflicts older adults, the Center f...
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