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It's nothing new, wanting to snag a summer job, save up those pennies and get a new bike, a new Xbox 360, a new car (price tag: 1,500,000 pennies). But for many low-income teens in the U.S., like those in Tate County, where Singleton lives, jobs...
The money couldn't come at a better time. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, unemployment for 16-to-19-year-olds is nearly 23%; that's more than double the 9.2% national unemployment rate and the highest it's been since 1992. Why the steep rise? For starters...
Urban America is hard-pressed as well, says Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson. "For the last three years, we've scraped and scrounged just to pool together different pots of money to get children hired during the summer," says Jackson, speaking of a joint city-county effort to create summer jobs...
Brent Asplin, chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Mayo Clinic, says health-care reform, if it's done comprehensively, can harness the financial value of EDs: "We're the last stop before the hospital bed - the last opportunity to connect people back to a primary-care provider...
It's all about the dollars. Coming up with a bill that doesn't add to the deficit is turning out to be even harder than members of Congress thought it would be. (Read "Kennedy's Absence Felt on Health-Care Reform.")