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Over the past few years, the United States has begun to lag in the race to deploy broadband, especially in rural areas. However, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provides $7.2 billion for broadband grants, loans and loan guarantees administered by the Agriculture and Commerce departments,... Read More → |
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On May 20, 2009, President Barack Obama signed the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act into law. The law expands the reach of the Administration’s Making Home Affordable Programs, improves the Federal Housing Administration’s Hope for Homeowners program and streamlines how... Read More → |
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(The New York Times/May 25, 2009) The definition of renewable energy seems clear cut: The sun continues to shine, so solar energy is renewable. The wind continues to blow, so wind turbines churn out renewable power. But industries are now pushing to have a growing number of other technologies categorized... Read More → |
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Shades of Charles Dickens, critics say the controversial measures create debtors prisons (The Christian Science Monitor/May 16, 2009) FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A basic tenet of criminal justice holds that an offender should pay for his crimes. So in these recessionary times, inmates are finding their... Read More → |
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Research Kicks Off “Click It or Ticket” Nationwide Enforcement Campaign Set To Run May 18-31 A U.S. Department of Transportation study recently released estimates that 1,652 lives could be saved and 22,372 serious injuries avoided each year on America’s roadways if seat belt use rates... Read More → |
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(New York Times/May 17, 2009) WASHINGTON - As Congress weighs imposing a mandatory limit on climate-altering gases - an outcome still far from certain - it is likely to turn to a system that sets a government ceiling on total emissions and allows polluting industries to buy and sell permits to meet it. That... Read More → |
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How an Industry Lobby Scored a Swift, Unexpected Victory by Channeling Billions to Electronic Records (Washington Post/ May 16, 2009) When President Barack Obama won approval for his $787 billion stimulus package in February, large sections of the 407-page bill focused on a push for new technology that... Read More → |
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(USA TODAY/May 4, 2009) Meet the forgotten housing crisis. While most attention has focused on the wave of foreclosures sweeping mostly middle-class, suburban Sunbelt neighborhoods from California to Florida, the nation’s emptiest neighborhoods have remained concentrated... Read More → |
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Why Do Millions of Americans Struggle With Reading and Writing? (Christian Science Monitor/May 7, 2009) For the first time, a detailed portrait of America’s least literate adults is emerging. About 30 million people - 14 percent of the US population 16 and older - have trouble with basic reading... Read More → |
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Many states are considering legislation that would take benefits away from welfare, food stamp and unemployment benefit recipients who test positive for drug use. In a recent video commentary, Brookings Institute Senior Fellow Ron Haskins examines the proposed legislation and says in most cases taking... Read More → |
