March 12, 2010
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Read articles from the March 12th edition, including an update on health care reform, extending Unemployment Insurance, and improved measures of poverty.
- CHN: Democrats Explore Strategies to Complete Health Care Reform
Congressional leaders and the Administration are trying to figure out the exact content of a final health care reform package and the legislative strategy to get it through the House and Senate. Discussions have mainly centered on a two-step process by which the House would pass the Senate bill, H.R. 3590, and then both chambers Read More »
Posted in Health Comments Off - CHN: Unemployment Insurance Back on Track; Jobs Bills Move in Senate and House
Senator Bunning (R-KY) temporarily derailed attempts by the Senate to pass a short-term extension of federal Unemployment Insurance benefits. His actions allowed the program to expire on February 28th. But two days later Senator Bunning abandoned his stalling tactics and an extension through April 5, 2010 of UI and COBRA health insurance subsidies passed 78-19. Read More »
Posted in Economy, Labor and Employment, Unemployment Insurance Comments Off - CHN: Improved Measure of Poverty Announced by Obama Administration
On March 2nd, the Obama Administration announced the development of a new way to measure poverty. Long sought by researchers and policy makers, this new method will attempt to gauge more accurately both the expenditures and income sources of the poor. The new Supplemental Poverty Measure was described in a press statement by Department of Read More »
Posted in Poverty and Income Comments Off
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