Word: michigan
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...State and municipalities across the country are running deficits. Some cities and towns are already in receivership. Huge states such as Michigan and California are in terrible trouble. This could cause both the loss of jobs and pension benefits for retired municipal workers. The U.S. economy has never been faced with the serial failures of a large number of pensions, both public and private...
...Retreating behind a digital veil started long before the Internet existed, with the advent of answering machines. "People would call a phone when they knew the other person wasn't available to pick up," says Charles Steinfield, a professor at Michigan State University who co-authored a peer-reviewed study called "The Benefits of Facebook 'Friends.' " "It enabled them to convey information without forcing them to interact...
...maintain existing connections. The site serves as a self-updating address book, keeping users connected no matter their geographical shifts. "There are people from my past life that I never would have tracked through 10 job changes and 20 e-mail changes," says Nicole Ellison, an assistant professor at Michigan State and lead author of the Facebook "Friends" study, which focused on undergraduate usage of the site. Facebook offers what she describes as a "seamless way of keeping in touch that doesn't involve all this work...
...funds once he is sworn in on Jan. 20. "The conditions have to do with tracking the money, how the money can and can't be used, accountability for the money, what dividends cannot be spent with it, the executive pay issues," said Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, emerging from the meeting. "In other words, there's a whole host of misuses of the first half which have to be avoided the second time around." The detailed letter, which may come from Obama's economic adviser Larry Summers, is expected to arrive before a potential vote on Thursday. Levin...
That's quite different from the initial federal response to Pronovost's lists. In 2003 Pronovost persuaded the state of Michigan to use three of his checklists in its intensive-care units. He worked with hospitals to overcome resistance from the staff to what appeared to be "more paperwork." He published the results of that study in the New England Journal of Medicine: a 66% reduction in infections and an estimated $175 million saved by not having to treat them...