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The real costs of amnesty add up fast
The Heritage FoundationThe amnesty under consideration in Congress would come at an enormous cost: more than $5 trillion over the lifetime of immigrants who are legalized. But the bill is structured to hide most of those costs from voters. To see how, let's start with some...Tags: Immigration, Congressional Budget Office, U.S. Congress, Government Health Care, Interior Policy
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California passes a budget that could be a federal template
SACRAMENTO — California lawmakers passed a budget Friday that lays the groundwork for the largest expansion of public healthcare in the country, placing the state at the leading edge of President Obama's federal overhaul. The budget, which the...
Tags: Barack Obama, Mark Leno, Employees, Executive Branch, Finance
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California Legislature approves state budget with rare surplus
San Jose Mercury NewsSACRAMENTO, Calif. The Democratic-controlled state Legislature on Friday overwhelmingly approved a moderate budget that saves some new revenues for a rainy day and pays down California's massive debt while still beefing up K-12 education spending by...Tags: Autism, PTA, Executive Branch, Elections, Schools
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Europe rethinks its pursuit of austerity
LONDON — After years of unrelenting austerity, Europe seems to have turned a corner on its debt crisis — right into a dead-end street. Since the turmoil erupted in 2009, countries from Ireland to Greece have focused almost exclusively on...
Tags: France, European Debt Crisis, European Union, Central Bank, Interior Policy
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Welfare limits tied to more deaths over time: study
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Pressuring welfare recipients to get a job or face losing their benefits may put them at a slightly increased risk of dying over the long term, according to new research. A study that tracked Floridians on welfare over...Tags: Demographics, Interior Policy, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Columbia University, Pension and Welfare
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Blockbuster day in Capitol for budget vote
SACRAMENTO — After months of public hearings and backroom negotiations, the state budget will be up for a vote in the Legislature on Friday. Gov. Jerry Brown and top lawmakers reached a deal on the budget earlier this week, and staff have been...
Tags: Blockbuster, Government, Budgets and Budgeting, Darrell Steinberg, Executive Branch
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Fighting fatherlessness in America
The Heritage FoundationSixty percent of kids in Richmond, Va., are without a dad in the home, reports First Things First of Greater Richmond. First Things First works to help men become actively involved in their children's lives in that city because, as the group explains,...Tags: Barack Obama, Abusive Behavior, Family, Personal Income, Washington, DC
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For black professors, Obama remarks and record disappoint
(Editor's note: This guest column is based on an open letter sent to President Barack Obama by six African-American male professors last week.) President Obama's recent commencement speech at Morehouse College inspired this column. As scholars of the...Tags: Barack Obama, Racism, Elections, Fairfield University, Minority Groups
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In Theory: Immigration reform not just liberal cause
Reforming America's immigration laws to allow undocumented immigrants to apply for citizenship has long been seen as a cause championed by liberals. But now a group that's not exactly known for liberal ideas has joined the call to relax immigration...
Tags: Immigration, Barack Obama, Lawyers, Laws, Mexico
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LETTER: Where Did the Middle Class Go?
I recently recalled something I learned in Sociology 101 some time ago. To oversimplify, we were taught that, economically speaking, there was an upper class, a middle class and a lower class. Today, the upper class are the wealthy, who have attorneys...Tags: Personal Income, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
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Party differences [Letter]
Recently I have made some very interesting observations about people and politics. I have noticed a significant contrast between conservative Republicans and the liberal Democrats in the light of two fairly recent weather events. The first incident...Tags: Rachel Maddow, Hurricane Katrina (2005), MSNBC (tv network)
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India considers special parliament session to pass food bill
ReutersNEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's government is considering calling a special session of parliament to pass a $24 billion welfare scheme to give cheap food to the poor, the finance minister said on Thursday, a move clearly aimed at public opinion ahead of a...Tags: Government, Political Corruption, Political Fundraising, Public Finance, Manmohan Singh
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