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Welfare Reform "Not a Disaster" ?

…2005 (and the comparison is with 2000 not 1996) however the 2005 severe poverty rate was the highest in 32 years including the severe recession in 1982. The immense severe

The contrarian addiction

…protects the public from food-borne illnesses. It issues nutritional advice and drug labeling guidelines. It polices false medical claims on packaging and in advertisements. It safeguards about one in every…

Romney’s Tax Views

…lobbying organizations–less regulation, more privatization, more reductions to earned benefits like Medicare and Social Security, and more tax provisions that favor the rich that the GOP labels–without empirical support– as…

Torture legalities have to be open

…is overly vague because it does not separately define the term “severe” in the phrase “severe mental or physical pain or suffering.” This argument sounds awfully familiar as well, doesn’t…