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...high cost makes the place inaccessible to many Americans who could benefit, especially since the highest obesity rates are found in low-income areas. But Wellspring kids are far from wealthy. Fedorchalk's mother and father, who work at a nursing home and Walmart, respectively, struggle to pay the bill. Freddy Fahl, 16, attends the school courtesy of a several-thousand-dollar student loan taken out by his mother Debi DeShon. (See TIME's special report on paying for college...
...recently-passed Senate “jobs bill” might as well have been nicknamed the Senate “let’s-keep-our-jobs” bill. With 70 Senators voting for the $15 billion legislation, including 13 Republicans, the verdict represented welcome progress for the stalled, embattled body. However, it would be a mistake to view the passage of this bill as a bipartisan victory. Along such lines, the media has covered Mass. Senator Scott Brown’s reach across the aisle to support the bill as though his actions were notable. However, voting...
...were Democrats willing to scale back their ambitious and comprehensive plan in favor of a more incremental approach. "We'd love to have a five-page bill," Obama said to the Republicans who arrived toting copies of the massive Senate-passed legislation. "It would save an awful lot of work. The reason we didn't do it is because it turns out that baby steps don't get you to the place where people need to go." (See the top 10 players in health care reform...
...muster enough of their own votes to get it done. The procedural and political hurdles ahead are formidable, and with each new poll showing public confidence slipping away, they know that time is not on their side. Yet, they say, they believe that if they can pass the bill, they can sell it too. Once voters can look beyond the messy political process and dealmaking that it took to get this far, they may once again be able to focus on the actual substance of the legislation, which still enjoys broad support...
Other Western leaders previously admitted that their countries failed to adequately respond to the genocide, most notably former U.S. President Bill Clinton's solemn apology in 1998. So why was Sarkozy's relatively mild mea culpa so significant - especially when it stopped short of an actual act of contrition...