Word: urban
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...people off. Medicaid has helped limit the damage caused by these cutbacks. (Without it, according to the independent Kaiser Commission on the Future of Medicaid, 9 million more Americans would be uninsured today.) But if the G.O.P. prevails, the ranks of the uninsured seem sure to grow. The Urban Institute, a Washington research group, projects that between 4 million and 9 million Americans will lose Medicaid coverage, depending on how states carry out the change. As a result, the cuts could inadvertently poison the prospects for welfare reform. How? It's a matter of incentives. As states cut back, they...
...bring a local urban attitude," Seto said of his group's participation. "We're here--this is home territory...
...still really help a district that is in horrible condition," says Chicago bureau chief James Graff. "The fact that his name is Jesse Jackson will enable him to get the attention of the press and put some focus on his district's problems, which are the classic urban problems of drugs and crime." Jackson won 76 percent of the vote to Somer's 24 percent. He holds law and theological degrees, but still a political novice whose only experience in politics was serving as national field director of the Rainbow Coalition from...
...probing work in a context where, typically, less will do. But Mann's aspirations don't stop there. Having revived the historical saga in The Last of the Mohicans, he obviously wants to do the same thing for what has become a much more familiar (and tiresome) genre, the urban action picture...
Rather than trying to mirror the overexposed world of upper-middle-class urban life, Dr. Katz creates its own absurd version of it. The show revolves around Dr. Katz (his voice belongs to creator and writer Jonathan Katz), a divorced psychoanalyst saddled with a 23-year-old son who still lives at home. Unlike almost every other new sitcom on TV, Dr. Katz does not rely on fast and furious quips filled with trendy pop-cultural references. Instead it features surreal, laconic riffs, many of them between the doctor and his son Ben (who, after seeing himself mentioned...