…to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid? Or make new runs at Urban Transit, Community Develpment, or (non-military) Foreign Aid? I suspect they know better than to get too ambitious and…

…with urban providers in a mutually beneficial manner EMR and ICD-10 rollouts have the potential for disaster Medicaid expansion is a good thing, but not salvation Primary care is holding…

…“If they [the hedge funds] win, that will signal to the rest of the hedge-fund community that aggressive strategies can work.,” said Steven Rosenthal from the Urban Institute (a former…

…data from before the last crisis until 1Q-13. (Blue line is before the crisis. Orange line is since the crisis.) (Inflation is… Consumer price index for all Urban consumers: all…

…be single and living in an urban area where he spends far less on rent/mortgage than a 40-year old would (I know this because my kids are roughly that age,…

…credits to help cover the premiums. Fully 96% of the youngest (21-27) will qualify for subsidies, says Linda Blumberg, a health policy analyst at the bipartisan Urban Institute. Now that…

…of these programs.) Moreover, some of the biggest incentive awards have been some of the most outrageous. The Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit awarded Panasonic $102.4 million to move nine…

…a bridge for sale.) This also points out that exposure to out-of-network charges, traditionally much more of a problem in rural counties, has now come home to urban dwellers. Seattle…

…her life almost impossible. Reader Urban Legend posted this comment to my earlier post: Besides the fact that her policy was crap, it appears there are numerous bronze or silver…

…sang the praises of an all-male, largely black charter school in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago, Urban Prep Academy, which replaced a high school deemed a failure. And in March,…