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...improve U.S. air quality, the Environmental Protection Agency moved to tighten ground-level-ozone limits imposed by the Bush Administration in 2008. The EPA estimates that the proposal, which must go through a public-comment period before final standards are issued, could save up to 12,000 lives annually by slashing smog levels from 75 parts per billion to as few as 60. While the EPA said the measure could cost up to $90 billion a year by 2020 to implement, it argued that this sum could be offset by as much as $100 billion in annual health care savings...
...paradox that filmmakers, critics and festival organizers are well aware of. The buzz is big "on the mountain," as they call it, but in recent years many of the festival's top-prize winners - movies like We Live in Public, Padre Nuestro and Trouble the Water - have gone on to fade quietly in a handful of theaters...
While the news media disseminates a ton of financial information with the intention of informing the public, the barrage of numbers, pompous words, and economic jargon (no-load index funds, moderate growth fund, treasury-inflation protected securities) often tunes the average American out. While many Harvard students read the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times on occasion, some religiously, not everyone is the average Harvard student...
...order to reengage the American public, the Obama administration needs to devise a line of communication to verbalize how the performance of the economy is directly affecting their lives. Some call it “kitchen table economics” or “economics light.” The constant bombardment of dreary economic news loaded with obscure facts, numbers, and forecasts leaves the average American unable to digest what can be useful information...
...were all ways in which it was and is trying to achieve this goal. But when John Smith opens up the newspaper, he reads about “Bonus Day” on Wall Street. There is very little about how President Obama is directly working to inform the public of his plans to salvage a deepening recession and how the financial markets are affecting their daily lives...