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Veterans, advocates brace for cutbacks
The Maryland Center for Veterans Education and Training's Baltimore complex is full of neatly made beds and shining-clean floors, a military-like environment for homeless former service members working to get their lives back on track. Its executive...Tags: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Rentals, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Budget cuts slow federal hiring in Md.
Hiring for federal jobs in Maryland has fallen 30 percent since 2008, and for the first time in years is being outpaced by the number of employees retiring or resigning — a trend that has raised concerns among some about the government's ability...Tags: Woodlawn (Baltimore, Maryland), Health Organizations, Layoffs and Downsizing, National Institutes of Health, Civil and Public Service
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Immigration deformed
There's the story of a woman with five kids who was asked: If she had to do it all over again, would she have five children? "Yes," she said, "just not these five." That's the way I feel about the immigration "reform" bill introduced by the Senate's...
Tags: Jeff Sessions, Justice System, Labor Legislation, Immigration, Migration
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Social Security Disability could be fixed by reexamining the role judges play
The Social Security Disability Insurance system is supposed to provide a financial safety net for workers and their families in the event that a serious medical impairment prevents them from working ("Judges sue Social Security over 'quotas' on disability...Tags: Parachuting, Justice System, Air and Aviation Sports, Judges, Laws
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Don't blame boomers for Social Security dilemma
We baby boomers get blamed for just about every economic hiccup, because there are so many of us. And our children are particularly furious because they believe the crisis in Social Security, which may affect their ability to retire, can be laid at...
Tags: Immigration, Employees
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Traffic delays likely for Social Security drill
An emergency drill at the Woodlawn-based Social Security Administration is likely to cause traffic delays Friday near Security Boulevard and Woodlawn Drive. Most employees from the Security West building will be evacuated from the facilities during...
Tags: Baltimore County, Maryland State Police
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The real reason Social Security is in trouble
Susan Reimer's recent column on Social Security Dilemma completely missed the mark ("Don't blame boomers for Social Security dilemma," April 22). Neither Baby Boomers nor the lack of new workers has anything to do with the current Social Security dilemma....
Tags: Theft, U.S. Congress
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The economic elephant in the room: widening inequality
Four years into a so-called recovery, and we're still below recession levels in every important respect except the stock market. A measly 88,000 jobs were created in March, and total employment remains some 3 million below its pre-recession level....
Tags: University of California, Berkeley, George W. Bush, Finance, Federal Reserve, Economy
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The myths that undermine Medicare and Social Security
The talk in Washington and among opinion leaders around the country's budget issues today centers on "balance" and "responsibility." Many conservatives declare that these terms mean that there should be no new revenue, only spending cuts to programs...
Tags: Finance, Consumer Confidence, Health Insurance, Congressional Budget Office, Barack Obama
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5 questions with … Stuart L. Ritter
As a senior financial planner with Baltimore money manager T. Rowe Price, Stuart Ritter spends much of his time on the job — and off — educating people about personal finance. April is Financial Literacy Month, and as many surveys show...
Tags: Trips and Vacations, University of Maryland, College Park, T. Rowe Price, Financial Planning, Colleges and Universities
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Where our democracy works and where it doesn't
Who says American politics is gridlocked? A tidal wave of politicians from both sides of the aisle who just a few years ago opposed same-sex marriage are now coming around to support it. Elected officials who had been against allowing undocumented...
Tags: Illegal Immigrants, Marriage, ABC (tv network), Immigration, Family
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How Republicans raided the welfare state and left it flat broke
I would like to add some points to former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich's column "How the welfare state has grown" (April 7). Mr. Ehrlich fails to mention the fact that every president since Lyndon Johnson, beginning in 1964, has raided the Social Security...
Tags: Trade Dispute, Bill Clinton, Economic Organization, Trade Agreements, Lyndon B. Johnson
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