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<title>McCain&apos;s, Obama&apos;s tax plans would hike debt, study says</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179901565</link>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2008 17:29 GMT</pubDate>
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...  according to the analysis by the Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan operation of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, two center-left Washington research centers. With interest costs, McCain&apos;s plans  ...
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<title>New York Takes Steps to Bring Healthcare Coverage to More Residents</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179857245</link>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2008 12:36 GMT</pubDate>
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...  toward proposals for universal coverage. State health officials also awarded a contract to the Urban Institute to model various reform proposals and analyze the cost and coverage implications with results  ...
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<title>Ohio has work to do on its unemployment fund - editorial</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179836966</link>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2008 09:54 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Plain Dealer reported Monday that Ohio&apos;s unemployment fund could run dry. According to an Urban Institute study, the fund totaled $445 million in December - and just $135 million by  ...
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<title>&apos;Don&apos;t Ask, Don&apos;t Tell&apos; an anachronism</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179832080</link>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2008 09:28 GMT</pubDate>
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...  1 million have worn the uniform of this nation. That figure comes from the Urban Institute, which extrapolated data from the 2000 census. For several years gays and lesbians have  ...
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<title>U.S. Olympic team a melting pot</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179769228</link>
<pubDate>22 Jul 2008 23:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  all the illegal immigrants in the country. Randy Capps, a demographer with the nonpartisan Urban Institute who studies immigrant families, sees the U.S. as keeping pace with global competition in  ...
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<title>Health Insurance Plans Kick Off Health Care Reform Campaign by Listening To Uninsured Ohioans</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179700134</link>
<pubDate>22 Jul 2008 15:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the U.S. health care system and encourage Americans to join the campaign. According to Urban Institute and Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured estimates based on U.S. Census Bureau  ...
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<title>New use for DNA tests - solving property crimes</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179641145</link>
<pubDate>22 Jul 2008 08:14 GMT</pubDate>
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...  of DNA is going to cause a revolution in policing,&quot; said John Roman, an Urban Institute economist and lead author of the study. &quot;As a society, we&apos;re going to have  ...
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<title>DNA tests can solve property crimes</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179620414</link>
<pubDate>22 Jul 2008 05:15 GMT</pubDate>
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...  of DNA is going to cause a revolution in policing,&quot; said John Roman, an Urban Institute economist and lead author of the study. &quot;As a society, we&apos;re going to have  ...
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<title>Medicare and leftovers</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179617705</link>
<pubDate>22 Jul 2008 04:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  far faster than the amount spent on children. A recently released report from the Urban Institute found that federal spending on programs for kids increased by 0.7 percent between 2006  ...
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<title>Reforming Medicare: Options, Tradeoffs, and Opportunities</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179579881</link>
<pubDate>21 Jul 2008 21:52 GMT</pubDate>
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...  joined by advocates of each of the three reform strategies. Robert Berenson of the Urban Institute will argue that the social insurance framework should be retained. Karen Ignagni, president of  ...
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<title>Out of bounds: McCain exaggerates impact of Obama&apos;s tax plan...</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179566644</link>
<pubDate>21 Jul 2008 20:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  fewer than 700,000 people who report business income, according to a study by the Urban Institute-Brookings Tax Policy Center. And not all of them are small-business owners. Penalty: Set McCain&apos;s  ...
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<title>Out of bounds McCain exaggerates impact of Obama&apos;s tax plan</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179554710</link>
<pubDate>21 Jul 2008 19:14 GMT</pubDate>
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...  fewer than 700,000 people who report business income, according to a study by the Urban Institute-Brookings Tax Policy Center. And not all of them are small-business owners. Penalty: Set McCain&apos;s  ...
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<title>Disease Prevention Programs Worth the Investment</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179533219</link>
<pubDate>21 Jul 2008 16:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  $16 billion a year, a new report says. &quot;We worked with economists at the Urban Institute who looked at health-care costs associated with these chronic diseases,&quot; said Jeffrey Levi, executive  ...
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<title>Racial Discrimination Alive and Well in Finance Biz</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179517391</link>
<pubDate>21 Jul 2008 14:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Lang, citing the discussion of audit studies that occur in chapter 2 of the Urban Institute , also notes that audit studies of the pre-approval loan process &quot;confirm that blacks  ...
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<title>Foreign-born athletes are set to take the stage for U.S.</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179504506</link>
<pubDate>21 Jul 2008 13:15 GMT</pubDate>
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...  and swimmers are in the United States.&quot; Randy Capps, a demographer with the non-partisan Urban Institute who studies immigrant families, sees the U.S. as keeping pace with global competition in  ...
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