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...Philippines The article "Going for Broke?," about the problems of unemployment, budget deficits and uncollected taxes in the Philippines, was a timely warning [Aug. 23]. Economists are concerned that the country will face insolvency and economic collapse unless the government reins in the widening public-sector deficit by adopting a package of revenue-producing and cost-cutting measures. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has declared that we are in the midst of a fiscal crisis. In spite of those dire conditions, our lawmakers wouldn't dream of cutting their congressional pork-barrel funds. President Arroyo, quo vadis? Joel R. Hinlo...
...Scruggs and Co. are riding a wave of challenges to the nonprofit-hospital sector. The IRS is probing dozens of those institutions over questions of excessive CEO pay, insider transactions, sweetheart loans and conflicts of interest on hospital boards. Congress recently held hearings on hospital billing and abusive collection tactics. The attorneys general in Illinois and Mississippi have been investigating similar issues. In Mississippi, the U.S. Attorney recently sued Baptist Health Systems, accusing it of paying kickbacks to doctors and filing fraudulent cost reports. (Baptist denies the charges.) Bills are also pending in California and Illinois that would clamp down...
...noted that the Kennedy School’s alums gravitate toward low-paying public sector jobs, shrinking the school’s donor base...
...spokesman Jesus Mena said that 80 percent of the MPP Class of 2003 went on to work in the public sector...
...June 1997, after former Kennedy School Dean Joseph S. Nye’s first year in office, more than half of students coming out of the master’s of public policy (MPP) program took private sector jobs after graduation...