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...every laid-off worker had a chance to learn a new skill and years of funding to master it - instead of the six-month shots now generally offered. The Administration's proposal to increase funding to community colleges is a start. But it's only a start. Ideally, the White House needs to propose an omnibus employment-emergency bill that guarantees jobless workers a basic set of rights for two to three years: health care, access to retraining, subsidized mentoring for careers in high-end manufacturing or health services. Handled well, such a program could be a "cash for clunker...
...outcome will be determined by equally unlikely heroes. Who would have imagined that Max Baucus, the fiscally conservative Democratic senator from Montana, would one day be leading Democratic efforts in the upper chamber? Or that Kathleen Sebelius, a former governor of Kansas, would effectively serve as the White House’s health-care czar? Both of those jobs had been more or less reserved for Ted Kennedy ’54-’56 and Tom Daschle respectively, who would have been stronger proponents of a more liberal bill and tougher negotiators with Republicans. How different would...
...forced to perform sex with each other; the photographs are shocking. And all of a sudden I realized that they’re wearing hula skirts and coconut bras. [The guards are] making this equation with being wild and primitive. It’s a dark side of how white people relate to other cultures.The New Visiting Faculty Exhibition is on display at the Carpenter Center until September...
...proposed health-care benefits would not extend to illegal immigrants. With those two words, the South Carolina Republican was transformed into a national political figure (if only briefly), loathed by Democrats and rebuked by fellow Republicans for defying tradition. At the GOP leadership's behest, Wilson called the White House that night to apologize. Heavy volume knocked out Wilson's website and phone lines the next day, and his Democratic opponent, Rob Miller, reported $400,000 in new contributions in less than 24 hours (one hastily created website, blasting the Congressman with the title "Joe Wilson Is Your Preexisting Condition...
...viewing public out there, to help them understand and reset the message that health-care reform benefits everybody one way or another," said moderate Nebraska Democratic Senator Ben Nelson, standing by the Capitol in front of a bus about to take him and 16 other Democrats to the White House for a chat with the President on health care. "I'm not going to commit to anything until I see everything, because there are so many moving parts to this process, and a lot of them are very wonkish but they're extremely important." (See the 10 greatest speeches...