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...lock box"), it was enacted as an insurance program in which current workers pay for older generations. Today more than three-quarters of payroll taxes go to pay benefits. With baby boomers getting ready to retire in droves over the next few decades and life expectancies growing, the ratio of workers paying taxes to retirees collecting checks will drop dramatically. It was 8.6 workers for every retiree in 1955 and will drop to 2 workers for every retiree...
Just about everything. ??Rules that were intended for Guant??namo, where the prisoner-to-guard ratio was 1 to 1, "migrated" during 2003 to Iraq's biggest prison, where the ratio was 75 to 1. Those rules were applied to a prison population that, according to the Schlesinger report, was made up "all too often" of Iraqis who were not valuable targets but bystanders caught in random roundups. Add to that the facts that the Army's intelligence units were poorly trained and badly managed, and the military police units assigned to Abu Ghraib were filled with reservists who showed...
...Ratio of Chinese boys to girls, attributed to some parents' making sure their one child is a boy by aborting female fetuses...
Harvard’s 16-14 assist-to-turnover ratio yesterday represented just the third time this season that the Crimson has recorded more assists than turnovers...
Harvard’s 16-14 assist-to-turnover ratio yesterday represented just the third time this season that the Crimson has recorded more assists than turnovers...