Word: nonpartisan
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...bucks, a bus ticket and let out the door without any preparation - they land back in their old neighborhoods at four in the morning where there's drugs - so what would we expect in terms of them being successful?" wonders Amy Solomon, a scholar at the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan research organization. (Read about one ex-inmate's struggle to re-enter society...
...Florida's 1.1 million registered Latino voters were Republicans, while 31% were Democrats and 26% independents. In 2008, however, when the total rose to 1.35 million, 38% were Democrats, 33% GOP and 28% independent. A 2008 poll by the Miami-based nonpartisan group Democracia U.S.A. shows that since 2000, Latino voters in the Sunshine State registered as independent have increased about 10%, while the percentage of Florida Latinos backing Republican candidates has fallen 13 points. (Watch TIME's video about Florida's hispanic voters...
...they didn't do it here," says Steve Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense. "They have got to draw it in 2010 or it's irrelevant, whatever the promises are." (The Democratic leadership estimates that there are only $3.8 billion earmarks in the bill, while Ellis' nonpartisan watchdog group includes Army Corps of Engineers projects to reach a total of $7.7 billion - a figure still under Obama's targeted 1994 figure of $7.8 billion.) (See the full text of Obama's first speech before a joint session of Congress...
...brutal realities of a state in freefall with no balanced budget. But it's still a bit of a shock. "The average Californian hasn't figured out exactly what this particular budget means for him or her yet," says Mark Baldassare, president and chief executive officer of the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California. "But they're going to feel it soon...
...gravely concerned about credit ratings and business reputation, a long haul is ahead for citizens and businesses already reeling from the foreclosure catastrophe and high unemployment rates. "This is the most serious budget crisis in my lifetime - and I have gray hair," says Jean Ross, executive director of the nonpartisan California Budget Project. "It will have a significant impact on Californians for the next 18 months and for years to come...