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There are several reasons to worry about the high long-term unemployment numbers. On the individual level, the longer you stay unemployed, the more unemployable you become. People lose job skills, social skills and the will to search for a job as they spend time out of work. Unemployment affects individuals' sense of well being, producing higher rates of depression and lower levels of life satisfaction. Studies have shown mixed results as to the effect of unemployment on health. On average all job losers tend to face a permanent reduction in their salary, and that is even more common...
...serves his 20 years, reformers of drug sentencing laws are closing in on a goal that was unthinkable even a few years ago: scrapping the federal sentencing structure established in 1986 that gives far harsher penalties for crack cocaine than for powder cocaine, resulting in prisons packed with low-level, predominantly African American offenders. The mechanism is known as the "100-to-1 drug ratio," which gives crack cocaine 100 times the weight of powder cocaine. Under the ratio, a person convicted of selling five grams of crack - about the weight of a teaspoon of salt - triggers the same five...
...bring down drug kingpins and choke off the flow of crack. Research since has shown that many assumptions underlying the laws were flawed, such as the belief that crack is more dangerous than powder cocaine, making its users more violent. And they have had unintended consequences: putting away low-level street dealers rather than the big-time traffickers, with startling racial disparities. (Read "Can Amphetamines Help Cure Cocaine Addiction...
...Nesson, known for advancing unusual legal arguments, said that the damages awarded would bankrupt Tenenbaum, and that his client would ask Judge Nancy Gertner to reduce the sum to a more "reasonable" level. In the only previous such case to go to trial, Capitol v. Thomas, the plaintiffs were awarded $9,250 per song, an amount raised to $80,000 per song in the re-trial for a total of $1.92 million...
...provision to provide federal subsidies to lower-income Americans to help them afford coverage. If subsidies are not sufficiently large enough, insurers say, many Americans would opt not to buy coverage. AHIP favors subsidies to Americans earning up to 400% of the federal poverty line, the same level of subsidies in both the House and HELP bills. The Senate Finance Committee, the lone remaining committee with jurisdiction over health care yet to produce a bill, hasn't announced which subsidy level it will support. But in an effort to win bipartisan backing and scale back the cost of the bill...