Word: dollarize
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...anguish and the matrix of large-scale social problems: natal health risks, dropout rates, and even incarceration figures share an observable, direct link to the number of young mothers. This makes cuts in health-education funding—down 26 percent since 2001—seem especially puzzling; each dollar spent teaching students about birth control and sexual responsibility would seem to save several otherwise spent on law enforcement, penitentiaries, and welfare programs. For a host of reasons, our society is not an accomocating place for a teen who is pregnant. People who are still in many ways children themselves...
...months following the enactment of Massachusetts’ health care reform act last year. Prior to the law, the CHA was reimbursed by the Commonwealth for the full cost of providing uncompensated services. But Boudrow said that the CHA is now only receiving 60 to 70 cents for each dollar of medical services that it provides. This reduction has had a significant financial impact on the Alliance in the past year because many low-income residents do not have health insurance despite the state’s efforts to require them to enroll in subsidized programs...
...given the uncertainty over the case for invasion, more academics could still have gone public with analysis about what might happen after Baghdad was won, said Linda J. Bilmes ’80, a lecturer at the Kennedy School and the author of “The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict...
...major brokerage house, Bear Stearns, and cut U.S. interest rates 0.75 of a percentage point to try to keep America from slipping into recession. But in Japan, there's little central bank activity, despite the threat of recession, a sliding stock market, and the decline of the dollar to its lowest level against the yen in 13 years. "At this moment the situation is very bad and it will take time to settle a normal relationship between the LDP and the DPJ," says Iio, a professor of government. "The situation is critical for Prime Minister Fukuda...
...Linda J. Bilmes ’80, a former assistant secretary of commerce, teaches public finance at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She is coauthor (with Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz) of “The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict...