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Wilson spoke optimistically of the work done in Harlem Children’s Zone—a network of schools, health clinics and violence prevention programs serving the most poverty-stricken children in Harlem—which monitors children from elementary school through finding employment as an adult. He noted that the Obama administration plans to roll out similar schemes across 20 cities next year...

Author: By Grace E. Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘The Wire’ Lays It On the Line | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...Health is one of your big issues. What you think of the health care bill that just passed out of committee? It's very problematic because it's not addressing the root causes of the health crisis in America. As I've said, we don't have a health care crisis in the country - we have a health crisis. Our health care system is not nearly as broken as [our] health. Eighty percent of the $2.4 trillion [in U.S. health care spending] is on chronic disease. When you consider that what the Congress is attempting to address is more about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mike Huckabee on the (Book Tour) Trail | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...elections. The architect of the Democrat's 60-seat super-majority, who helped the party add a total of 14 seats in the 2006 and 2008 elections, is worried these days about how disappointed the Democratic base will be if Congress doesn't make a determined effort to pass health care reform with a public plan in it. Odds are good that that attempt will fail, but in Schumer's book As are still given for effort. (Read "Understanding the Health Care Debate: Your Indispensable Guide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Chuck Schumer Push a Public Option Through? | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...optimistic" about the chances of one ending up in the final legislation passed by the chamber. Indeed, despite the fact that President Obama has refused to endorse the idea as a must-have provision and that Olympia Snowe of Maine - the lone Republican Senator still supporting any version of health reform - remains opposed to it, Schumer has never given up his hopes of crafting a workable compromise. This week Senate majority leader Harry Reid is expected to unveil the Senate's comprehensive health care reform bill, which is expected to include a public option drafted by Schumer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Chuck Schumer Push a Public Option Through? | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...universal that failure is not an option," Schumer said on Oct. 29. "And so there's going to be willingness to give - by the left, by the center, by the right. And we will come up with a bill that we all can support. We must." (See more about health care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Chuck Schumer Push a Public Option Through? | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

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