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NCBM Unveils Groundwork Magazine The National Conference of Black ...
Historic Health Insurance Reform Legislation Signed: Get The Facts On March 23, President Barack ...
Vanessa R. Williams: A Vanguard Visionary The humility and grace of ...
Congressional TriCaucus Declares ‘Health Coverage Is Not Enough’   Members of the Congressional TriCaucus ...
Weatherization Program Ramps Up After Slow Start (Stateline/June 8, 2010) Of all ...
HHS Report: The Hidden Costs of Health Care The US Department of Health ...
GM Gets To Dump Its Polluted Sites (Detroit Free Press/August 7, 2009) ...
Special Report: NCBM Broadband Agenda The digital disparity that currently ...
NCBM Calls on FCC To Ponder Network Neutrality Rules Groups Ask For Workshop On ...
Expansion of tax-credit programs to create jobs in Missouri goes into effect (Kansas City Star/June 4, 2009) ...
Health Reform: District-by-District Impact The US House Committee on ...
2010 Census Frequently Asked Questions The National Conference of Black ...
From a Theory to a Consensus on Emissions (New York Times/May 17, 2009) ...
Congressional TriCaucus Declares ‘Health Coverage Is Not Enough’   Members of the Congressional TriCaucus ...
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Health Reform Law: A Summary of Provisions The final health insurance reform ...
Texas Conference of Black Mayors   Mayor John WhiteChapter President Ames, ...
GOP governors get dose of stimulus reality (Politico/April 9, 2009)--The list of ...
Insurance Companies Extend Olive Branch on Health Care (CongressNow/March 24, 2009)—Leading insurance companies ...

Archive for July, 2009

The Value-Added Tax: State and Local Implications

(Governing.com/July 17, 2009)  The Value-Added Tax has reportedly resurfaced in Washington as a possible future revenue source to help balance the budget, pay for Medicare and Social Security or possibly fund part of the national health care system. For those unfamiliar with the VAT, it operates like... Read More →

Detroit GOP Leader Backs Democrat-Proposed Unified State Health Plan

(Detroit Free Press/July 22, 2009) The Legislature’s top Republican strongly endorsed his Democratic counterpart’s plan to insure an estimated 400,000 employees of the state, municipalities, counties and schools with a single health care plan to save government hundreds of millions of dollars,... Read More →

NY City and State Agree to Repay U.S. for Improper Medicaid Claims

(New York Times/July 22, 2009) ALBANY - New York State and New York City officials agreed this week to repay the federal government for more than half a billion dollars in improper Medicaid claims, averting a potential court battle but adding more red ink to the state’s and city’s finances. The... Read More →

Connecticut Pushes Ahead with Health Care, Despite Budget Pressures

(Wall Street Journal/July 22, 2009) Connecticut became the latest state to pass legislation to revamp its health-care system, plowing ahead with a plan to cover uninsured residents despite budget pressures and congressional efforts to impose a comprehensive solution at the national level. On Monday,... Read More →

Congressmen Propose Trust Fund For Nation’s Water I nfrastructure

(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/July 15, 2009) The nation’s drinking water and sewage treatment systems are getting older and need massive investments to protect public health and the environment, a bipartisan group of congressmen said Wednesday in proposing a $10&enspbillion-a-year federal clean... Read More →

FHA To Begin Insuring Hospital Refinance Loans

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan announced July 13th that HUD’s Federal Housing Administration (FHA) will now provide mortgage loan insurance for hospital refinancing. Prior to this, hospitals could only get FHA insurance on loans that included a substantial... Read More →

Boost in Food-Stamp Funding Percolates Through Economy

(The Wall Street Journal/July 7, 2009) DAVENPORT, Iowa — The lush red strawberries caught the attention of Rachel Patrick, a mother of five shopping at a farmers market along the Mississippi River here.  She selected two cartons and ignited a little-noticed chain reaction that is an important... Read More →

States Straining To Repair Budgets

(Washington Post/July 7, 2009) Illinois has stopped paying $1,655 a funeral to bury the indigent dead. California is issuing IOUs in place of tax refunds. Ohio’s rainy-day fund has dwindled from nearly $1 billion to exactly 89 cents. Nearly a week into the new budget year, all three states are... Read More →

LaHood: On the Road to Sell Stimulus — Still

(Congressional Quarterly/July 6, 2009) Congress enacted the economic stimulus package in mid-February. But it seems that Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has never stopped selling it. As custodian of the huge pot of infrastructure spending in the $787 billion initiative (PL 111-5), LaHood, more than... Read More →

Hospitals Reach Deal With Administration

(Washington Post/July 7, 2009) The nation’s hospitals agreed last night to contribute $155 billion over 10 years toward the cost of insuring the 47 million Americans without health coverage, according to two industry sources. The agreement that three hospital associations reached with White House... Read More →

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