Word: campaigners
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...from 41% of the size of the nation's economic output in 2008 to 82% of the economic output in 2019. In other words, if the CBO estimates play out without a change in policy, Obama is on track to accomplish exactly what he promised to change during the campaign, creating a massive burden for the next generation to fund politically popular policies in the short term, like tax cuts and spending programs. (Read "How to Understand a Trillion-Dollar Deficit...
...tested. The discussion is now likely to return to the promise Obama made last month, when he told Congress that he was willing to "sacrifice some worthy priorities" to make his budget responsible. White House aides say that the president has already made significant sacrifices by scaling back his campaign promises in the current budget. To make the numbers balance under a rosier outlook, Obama shrunk the size of the "Make-Work-Pay" tax credit by 20%, to $800 per family. He slowed down his foreign aid spending plans, scrapped a plan to reduce income taxes for the elderly...
...second half was all St. John’s. The Red Storm (18-14) dominated possession and the paint in the final stanza, eventually handing the Crimson (19-10) an 83-60 drubbing and finishing what Dartmouth started by ensuring that Harvard’s 2008-09 campaign would end unceremoniously...
...rising birthrate among those 20-something women - sometimes referred to as the "Knocked Up" phenomenon - caught the attention of researchers a few years ago. The numbers were sufficiently alarming that the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, knowing that 7 of 10 pregnancies to single women in their 20s are unplanned, decided to expand its mission to include young women in this vulnerable age group. Says Sarah Brown, CEO of the newly named National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy: "We first started to notice this trend [because] when teen birthrates went down, those for women in their...
...women once they graduate from high school. Sexuality workshops are popular on college campuses, but they deal primarily with getting pleasure from sex and not on information about contraception or healthy sexual decision-making. By the time adults are in their 20s, they have even fewer resources. The National Campaign is conducting a survey of young adults in their 20s that will be released later this year, and Brown says she has been shocked by some of the findings thus...