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Last year, the Census Bureau began releasing the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) alongside the official measure its been using since the 1960s, in order to provide lawmakers with a more sophisticated picture of poverty in America. The Census Bureau today released its updated report on the SPM for 2012, which showed that about 16 percent [...]
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President Obama came out with guns blazing at today's news conference, his first since re-election, pushing back hard against Republican senators' disparaging remarks about U.N. ambassador Susan Rice, Washington's odds-on favorite to get the nod as America's next secretary of state.
The president may indeed be genuinely outraged that one of his reportedly closest advisors is taking heat for the Sept. 11 snafu in Benghazi -- a situation Rice had nothing to do with. He repeated the administration's claim that when Rice took to the airwaves on Sept. 16 to explain the events in Libya, she was merely working with what the intelligence community had given her. And as far as we know, that's precisely what happened. (Benghazi isn't really the reason senators are objecting to Rice anyway, but that's ...
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The Center for American Progress (CAP) on Wednesday released a proposal that would cut $385 billion from U.S. health care expenditures without shifting the burden of costs onto America's seniors and the middle class. Dubbed "The Senior Protection Plan," the proposal was unveiled in the face of impending budget negotiations between President Obama and Congressional [...]
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America's fledgling economic recovery is being threatened by "obsessive concern with cutting deficits that has infected both parties," a group of 350 economists wrote in a letter to lawmakers this week. Instead of focusing on deficit-reducing austerity measures that will do nothing to fix the "mass unemployment, rising poverty, and declining wages" that are holding [...]
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Today during his White House press conference, President Obama scolded Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and other Republicans for attacking America's U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice regarding intelligence on the attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi. McCain said today that he and his Republican allies would do anything they can to prevent Rice from becoming [...]
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In his victory speech to a rapturous crowd in Chicago following his reelection, President Barack Obama affirmed that America's "decade-long conflict" in Afghanistan will end in 2014. In fact, withdrawal is Western politicians' prime objective in the region: the West needs to get out before the bloodletting starts again.
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By Global Public Square For more What in the World watch "Fareed Zakaria GPS" this Sunday at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET. Imagine a country on election day where you know the results the instant the polls close. The votes are counted electronically, every district and state has the same rules and the same [...]
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By Patrick M. Cronin, Special to CNN Patrick M. Cronin is senior advisor and senior director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security in Washington, D.C. The views expressed are his own. Mounting tensions over the East and South China Seas are threatening to torpedo the Asian Century. China [...]
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Savita Halappanavar, a 31-year-old Indian woman living in Ireland, went to the hospital when she first began to miscarry -- but thanks to Ireland's stringent abortion ban, medical professionals denied her repeated requests to quickly terminate the pregnancy because they could still detect a fetal heartbeat. The Irish hospital required her to extend her miscarriage [...]
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