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Lula's biggest challenge, though, has been bridging the huge chasm between Brazil's rich and poor--a gap that makes the country look more like the feudal monarchy it was in the 19th century than the modern democracy it wants to be in the 21st. Lula, who as an impoverished kid shined shoes on the streets of Săo Paulo, has pumped more than $100 billion into social projects ranging from microfinance to grants for families who keep their kids in school. As a result, 52% of Brazil's 190 million people are now designated as middle class...
...government tried several stop-gap measures to no effect and in late 1992 opted for a complete re-booting of Sweden's financial system. Conservative Prime Minister Carl Bildt's administration sat down with the center-left opposition and came up with a bipartisan, multi-tiered approach. The government issued blanket insurance for a period of four years to creditors in all the country's 114 banks. It established an agency to oversee all banks that needed recapitalization and told them to immediately write down their losses...
...Michigan, the gap between McCain supporters and Obama supporters has also widened since the TIME/CNN poll in early September. Obama has gained two points among registered voters, now garnering 51% to McCain's 44%. As for likely voters, Obama leads...
...weaknesses. Among them is a plan to unify the pension and healthcare systems, which could win points with Japan's aging population and embarrass LDP leaders, who have at times appeared insensitive to the pocketbook issues of ordinary citizens. Ozama also wants to narrow Japan's growing income gap by raising low-income wages and give bigger childcare allowances to families...
...Bailey said that the state underestimated the popularity of the program “by a huge amount,” and that Mass. Gov. Deval L. Patrick ’78 is trying to close the gap between how much hospitals spend and how much the state reimburses. As one of the 10 largest health systems in the state, the Health Alliance currently receives over 700,000 patient visits a year—and that number is expected to increase in coming years. Representatives at the state’s Executive Office of Health and Human Services were...