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Climate control issues

Alternet, a leftist blog, carries this interview with Dr. Jansen, head of Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NASA’s premiere climate research center. So might that make it slightly left of…

Student loans

The Project on Student Debt at The Institute of College Access and Success (ticas.org) reports: The current credit crunch has students and parents concerned about whether they will be able…

Generic drugs Part 1

…requirements. Also see this 1999 Food and Drug Law Institute overview of the Hatch-Waxman Act of 1984.) In one study (Borgheini 2003), a full 31% variation was found in the…

Strategic Outreach Non-profit

SOFAR: Strategic Outreach to Families of All Reservists The Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Institute of New England (PCFINE), with the support of other psychoanalytic groups throughout the country, has launched…

Fact checking the President on SCHIP

…in covering children in families with incomes up to $83,000 per year, which isn’t true. The Urban Institute estimated that 70 percent of children who would gain coverage are in…

The other side of the coin in Iraq

Reporters at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting offer insight into local political and military conditions in Basra. Reporting appears to dovetail with Cactus’s post. The concrete walls that…

The Bush Economy by Karl Rove

While Mark Thoma has a few words about the partisan garbage Karl Rove delivered to the American Enterprise Institute, let me start here: The economy itself began slowing in the…

Employment Growth Less Than Expected

…we read: Wages for nonsupervisory workers rose 3.4 percent in the year ended in March, notes Economic Policy Institute Senior Economist Jared Bernstein. That’s less than consumer prices rose over…