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...Difficult to Read That lack of conviction has angered Rajapaksa's opposition and deeply troubles Sri Lanka's peace activists, who worry that Tamils may face even worse repression and hardship than they did before the war. Their original concerns - for the protection of Tamil language and culture and self-governance in Tamil-majority areas - are not even on the agenda...
...Foote, a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, who studied negative equity in Massachusetts during the late 1980s and early 1990s when home prices dropped 23%, argues that most walk-aways are likely driven by the combination of two things: both negative equity and an economic hardship, such as job loss. (See 10 ways your job will change...
...much does this matter? More than words can say. There is no other single force causing as much measurable hardship and human misery in this country as the collapse of marriage. It hurts children, it reduces mothers' financial security, and it has landed with particular devastation on those who can bear it least: the nation's underclass...
...investment, and the cuts the President has proposed include a $106 billion gradual reduction in the payments that hospitals receive for treating high numbers of low-income and uninsured people. The Administration says that as more people get good health-insurance coverage, hospitals will need less of these hardship payments. This makes sense in theory, even to the AHA, but any candid hospital executive will readily admit that facilities use such payments to make up for financial shortfalls in lots of places, most notably EDs. Says Umbdenstock: "Without these extra payments, it would be hard to maintain services that...
...House leaders note that the typical cost of coverage for a family living at 400% of the poverty level is 14% of their income - an amount that health-care experts do not consider to be onerous. Though not spelled out at this point, the bill will include "hardship" exemptions. More importantly, it would also feature a big expansion of Medicaid, the federal-state program that provides health care to the poor, though lawmakers are still awaiting figures from the Congressional Budget Office that would indicate how much bigger they could make the existing program...