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...young voters, amounting to at least a 2.2 million increase from 2004, according to Tufts University’s Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. H-VOTE, an Institute of Politics program that helped students register in their home states and obtain absentee ballots, reported a four-fold increase in the number of voters it registered compared to 2004. Two thousand and seventeen students registered or pledged to vote this year through H-VOTE, up from about 500 during the last presidential race. Alice J. Gissinger ’11, a student leader of H-VOTE, said...
...under Medicaid, the government-subsidized health plan. In anticipation of the price hike, many institutions, including Harvard, purchased the cheaper contraceptives in excess, enabling them to offer lower prices throughout the summer and fall. When these stockpiles ran out, students and others saw birth control prices increase three to four-fold. “With such a large denominator of students on the University health plan, and such a large number of medications offered through the plan, there is a big enough base to absorb such price fluctuations in one particular drug,” said Mark L. Hurwitz, finance...
...that found the presence of venues such as casinos and horse-racing tracks roughly doubles the incidence of problem and pathological gambling in the surrounding community within a range of 50 miles (80 km). Throughout the world, Volberg says, the introduction of gambling typically results in a three- to four-fold increase in addiction rates within the first five years...
Several university newspapers have reported three-fold to four-fold price increases—for instance, from roughly $8 to roughly $40 at Kansas State University, according to the University Daily Kansan. The Columbia Daily Spectator wrote that many students were forgoing their purchases of birth control pills rather than pay the inflated prices...
...patriotism or the easier path to citizenship, the number of immigrants serving in the military has surged four-fold since 9/11, and is now about 2% of the force. There's even discussion of plucking foreign recruits for the U.S. military even before they've left their homeland. Kevin Ryan, a retired Army brigadier general now at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, raised some Pentagon eyebrows last week when he suggested the U.S. Army open a recruiting station in India's capital, Delhi. By tapping into non-citizens eager to wear a U.S. Army uniform, he wrote...