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...pose systemic risk presents a gaping hole in federal resolution authority. Unfortunately, behaviors at hedge funds and on trading floors that pose substantial risk to all Americans have for too long been allowed to proliferate outside of the government’s gaze. Geithner’s plan to address systemic risks in financial markets is comprehensive, if still relatively non-specific. Presented to lawmakers last Thursday, the proposal outlines general changes in four areas: the limitation of broad economic risks, the enhancement of consumer and investor protections, the closure of gaps in regulatory oversight, and the global coordination...
...debates with Senator John McCain, President Obama famously declared that the government needed to use a “scalpel” instead of a “hatchet” to reduce spending. The state of California, however, seems to have no problem with using a hatchet to address its current budget crisis. As of mid-March, the government will have issued over 25,000 pink slips to teachers statewide, to the outrage of teachers, parents, and students alike...
...cannot afford sanitary pads, according to Scharpf. Scharpf said she was grateful for the fellowship because of its potential to increase public awareness of this little-known issue. “It will give girls and women dealing with problems visibility and hopefully encourage others to get involved and address this problem,” Scharpf said. Scharpf said she became interested in social entrepreneurship after she consulted for the Clinton Foundation’s HIV/AIDS Initiative. “I realized that I could do business and do good at the same time,” she said...
...crisis has disproportionately affected certain groups, like the poor and disenfranchised, which leads to heightened public health concerns among these demographics. He said that when people lose jobs, they lose access to insurance and can no longer afford medication—another timely issue that Koh will have to address...
...proud whenever he helped depressed patients rid themselves of sadness, anxiety or anger. "I thought I would get a happy person," he says. "But I never did. What I got was an empty person." That's what prompted him to launch the field of positive psychology, with a groundbreaking address to the American Psychological Association in 1998. Instead of focusing only on righting wrongs and lifting misery, he argued, psychologists need to help patients foster good mental health through constructive skills, like Ben-Shahar's PRP. The idea is to teach patients to strengthen their strengths rather than simply improve...