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...report also mentions the results of a Zogby poll conducted for the Palm Center in 2006. That poll, which surveyed 545 military personnel who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan, found that only 37% of the respondents opposed openly gay military service. More important, of the 125 survey respondents who knew for sure that at least one person in their unit was gay or lesbian, 64% said it had "no impact" on the unit's morale. Three-quarters of the total sample said they were "comfortable" in the presence of gays and lesbians. One assumes that, despite Senator Nunn...
...could end up cutting off benefits to individuals. The wife, looking stricken, replies, ''There's got to be a better way.'' Such ads are having an effect. Immediately after Clinton's September speech, a Washington Post poll showed the public approved his ideas 56% to 24%. A follow-up survey last week found the spread is 51% to 39%. While the White House frets about such slippage, promoters of competing plans see an opportunity. Congressman Jim Cooper of Tennessee, a conservative Democrat who has been studying health care for years, has introduced his managed competition act. Like the White House...
During and after the great depression, workers, employers and the government entered into an implied social contract that afforded Americans a basic level of economic security if they worked hard and took responsibility for their families. In a new TIME/Rockefeller Foundation survey, however, Americans give voice to a very different reality: the 20th century's social contract is unraveling, they say, and almost all of us--8 in 10, in fact--yearn for a new bargain to help meet 21st century challenges...
...TIME/Rockefeller Foundation survey showed that the U.S.'s youngest workers are, stunningly, its most pessimistic about the nation's economic future, and half of them are uninsured. Equipping them with tools to bolster their economic security takes on special urgency. In response, an innovative start-up, working with labor organizations, targets health-care counseling, savings, credit and other low-cost, portable products to the needs of these younger workers...
...annually. "It's a tremendous market to tap into," says Matthew DeGuire of Travel Unlimited, a retail travel agency in Columbia, South Carolina. "Most gay households are two-income families with no kids, and they have a lot more disposable income than a typical household." Indeed, a recent marketing survey found that 97% of American gay men and women took vacation in the past year, compared to just 64% of the general population...