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...problems don’t end there. The centers charge between $1,423 and $2,453 a month for full-time infant care—prices that would command roughly two-thirds of the average stipend allotted to students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, pre-tax. Harvard launched a pilot program in 2006 that gives student parents an additional sum of up to $5,000 toward the cost of University-affiliated childcare—still leaving much of the expense uncovered for many parents. The program was extended through this year, but its renewal...
...political unpopularity of failed programs funded by tax dollars presents a major obstacle to change, according to Lomax...
...have united under the banners of smaller government, fiscal responsibility and free markets. Channeling frustration with the Obama Administration's policies into boisterous protests and fiery rhetoric has helped shape the national debate - and has likely provided a measure of catharsis as well. But with a new set of Tax Day protests looming, the Tea Party movement is nearing a tipping point. "Our biggest challenge," Mandile says, "is to get people to do more than come to rallies and sit at their computers trading e-mail stories." (Watch TIME's video "Meet the Tea Party...
This does not, however, necessitate a publicly run entity. For instance, the state could provide tax incentives to private organizations or mental-health professionals seeking to address gambling issues. Any opportunity for legislators and individuals to create innovative solutions to new problems is a good one. One such solution employed by the state of New Jersey in order to combat gambling problems is a system that allows citizens to voluntarily ban themselves from in-state casinos. Massachusetts would do well to provide the same service and encourage its citizens—and employ its workers—to come...
...with a financial crackdown in the first place. Senator Bob Corker has been the GOP's leading voice for compromise, even criticizing his own party's intransigence, but he also told me many provisions in the House bill were "crazy left," and said Obama's proposal for a modest tax on big banks reminded him of Venezuela. Really, it's hard to imagine many Republicans saying yes unless they thought they'd get hammered for saying no. (See pictures of Republican memorabilia...