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...report, focused on people younger than age 65, found 45.7 million "nonelderly" uninsured people in the U.S. last year (including the elderly, the number of uninsured was 46.3 million). Low-income adults without dependent children - who generally do not qualify for government programs like Medicaid - were hit hardest. Despite heated rhetoric on the issue, immigrants are not driving the problem; 80% of the uninsured under age 65 are native-born or naturalized citizens. The uncompensated cost of providing health care to the uninsured last year was $57 billion, three-quarters of which was picked up by the Federal Government. (Watch...
...Extremely talented,” Omodele-Lucien said of the younger Nguyen. “He has a lot of potential. He strikes the ball extremely well. He’s very level-headed, which is one of the hardest things to master. He’s got all the tools, and he’s very athletic, and if he stays focused, he’ll do a lot for the team and for himself...
...panel at a conference in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou with investment guru Jim Rogers and Kirby Daley, an outspoken Hong Kong - based financial strategist. Though both Americans, the two appeared to be engaged in a contest to decide who could bash their home country the hardest. Rogers called China "the next great country of the world," while comparing a debt-burdened America to the failed British Empire. Daley lambasted American economic policy as ill conceived and out of touch. Rogers warned his listeners against a declining U.S. dollar; Daley said the U.S. consumer, who has been the world...
According to new U.S. Census data, the recession has hit middle- and low-income families hardest, widening the gulf between them and the rich. Lower incomes boosted poverty rates in 31 states and Washington, D.C., from 2007 to 2008, compared with increases in just 10 states the year before. Overall, the U.S. rate hit an 11-year high of 13.2%, while the number of Americans receiving food stamps rose...
...forecasting that China and South Korea would perform well. The forecast for Chile already looks good, and it should be better. Neither Chile nor Harvard won the lottery, but, together, we are doing something better—not relying on chance but investing in some of the brightest and hardest-working young people to learn and generate knowledge and, in so doing, to help create a better world...