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...fear of being blamed for declaring hostilities. But with government air raids and artillery barrages, Tiger suicide bombs and mine attacks, and executions on both sides, neither is keeping the peace. "The truce is still in place in theory," says Peter Chalk, a senior analyst at security specialist Rand. "But for all intents and purposes, it's back...
...their innate resistance to treatment carries a message for the rest of us as well. It requires almost a stroke of luck to enter a U.S. hospital and receive precisely the right treatment--no more, and no less. A landmark Rand Corp. study published in 2003 found that adults in the U.S. received, on average, just 54.9% of recommended care for their conditions. Average blood sugar was not measured regularly for 24% of diabetes patients. More than half of all people with hypertension did not have their blood pressure under control; one third of asthma patients eligible to get inhaled...
Instead, these club members paddled back to shore to look for help, meeting Rand K. Pratt, the Dockmaster at the Charleston Harbor Marina...
...foreign workers (including highly skilled ones). That's like adding a city the size of Atlanta each year. But it's a small fraction of the U.S. workforce of 139 million. "No credible estimate exists that [shows] immigrants cause unemployment," says James Smith, a senior economist at the Rand Corp. On the other hand, immigrants at least cause displacement by taking low-paying jobs from some Americans...
...schools bear the brunt. Children of undocumented immigrants tend to need English-as-a-second-language classes, and their parents typically don't pay enough in taxes to cover schooling. Hospitals write off the cost of medical services for undocumented immigrants. The bigger picture is more muddled. Economists at Rand have found wide variances in analyses of the costs to taxpayers of providing services to immigrants, from a "surplus" of $1,400 per immigrant to a "deficit" of $1,600. The majority of immigrants, in fact, pay taxes, even the undocumented (via fake Social Security and taxpayer IDs). Through...