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California Gov. Jerry Brown low-balled tax revenues by $3.2 billion, independent budget analyst says	18.5.2013	San Jose Mercury News: Breaking News
The state's independent budget analyst said Friday that California will take in $3.2 billion more than Gov. Jerry Brown estimated, providing Democratic lawmakers an argument to funnel more money into state programs and setting up a spending showdown with the administration.
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Small SUVs fair poorly in crash tests	17.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Tom Krisher The Associated Press Published May 16, 2013 06:15PM MDT Detroit • Only two of 13 small SUVs performed well in front-end crash tests conducted by an insurance industry group, with several popular models faring poorly in the evaluations. Subaru’s 2014 Forester was the only vehicle to get the top “good” rating in the results released Thursday. The 2013 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport was rated as “acceptable.” But fast-selling models such as the Ford Escape, Honda CR-V and Jeep Wrangler received only “marginal” or “poor” ratings from the Insurance Institute ... ...
Most compact SUVs score poorly on new front-end collision test	17.5.2013	San Jose Mercury News: Business
Only two of 13 small SUVs performed well in front-end crash tests done by an insurance industry group, with several popular models faring poorly in the evaluations.
House Republicans repudiate Obama healthcare program -- again	17.5.2013	LA Times: Top News
House Republicans repudiate Obama healthcare program -- again
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Up to 1 in 5 children suffer from mental disorder: CDC	17.5.2013	Reuters Health
Up to 1 in 5 children suffer from mental disorder: CDC
Only 2 of 13 small SUVs do well in crash tests	16.5.2013	AP Business
DETROIT (AP) -- Only two of 13 small SUVs performed well in front-end crash tests done by an insurance industry group. Several popular models fared poorly....
House farm bill moves ahead with big cut in food stamps	16.5.2013	Chicago Tribune: Nation
House farm bill moves ahead with big cut in food stamps
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DealBook: Berkshire’s Rating Is Cut After S.&P. Revises Its Methodology	16.5.2013	NY Times: Business
DealBook: Berkshire’s Rating Is Cut After S.&P. Revises Its Methodology
Only 2 of 13 small SUVs perform well in insurance institute front-end crash tests	16.5.2013	Star Tribune: Business

Most compact SUVs score poorly on new front-end collision test	16.5.2013	LA Times: Business
Most compact SUVs score poorly on new front-end collision test
House agriculture panel approves farm bill, cuts to food stamp programs	16.5.2013	Star Tribune: Politics

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Letter: The Psychiatrist’s Manual, Analyzed	16.5.2013	NY Times: Editorials
Letter: The Psychiatrist’s Manual, Analyzed
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US House set to approve cuts to food stamp programme with new farm bill	16.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Democrats to speak out against House bill would cut about $2.5bn a year from the food stamp programme A House committee rebuffed Democratic efforts Wednesday to keep the $80bn-a-year food stamp programme whole, as debate on the farm bill turned into a theological discourse on helping the poor. The House bill would cut about $2.5bn a year – or a little more than 3% – from the food stamp programme, which is used by 1 in 7 Americans. The committee rejected an amendment by Democrats to strike the cuts 27-17, keeping them in the bill. The legislation would achieve the cuts partly by eliminating an eligibility category that mandates automatic food stamp benefits when people sign up for certain other programmes. It would also save dollars by targeting states that give people who don't have heating bills very small amounts of heating assistance so they can automatically qualify for higher food stamp benefits. Republicans argued that the cut is small relative to the size of the programme, ...
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Isn't it time for Holder & Co. to go?	15.5.2013	NewsTrust Yahoo Pipes Feed
Time to make for the exit. ...
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Florida lawmakers, who rejected Medicaid, have really sweet health insurance deal	15.5.2013	NewsTrust Yahoo Pipes Feed
Blood-sucking parasite, or Florida House Republican? House members will pay just $8.34 a month for state-subsidized health care next year, or $30 a month to cover their entire family. That’s one-sixth of what state senators and most state employees will pay, and one-tenth of the cost to the average private-sector worker, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. It’s also less than the $25 a month House Republicans wanted to charge poor Floridians for basic coverage such as a limited number of doctor visits or preventive care. ...
Furloughs now slashing paychecks for 820,000 workers	15.5.2013	Daily Kos
Federal agencies have been scrambling to reduce the impact of the furloughs and in some cases, including Health and Human Services and the Education Department, have avoided them entirely. That isn't done without cuts to other pieces of those agencies' work, but according to Republican logic, if powerful people don't see it and suffer from it, it's not there, and if they do, it's fake: “This is kind of a no-win situation,” said Scott Lilly, a former Democratic staff director to the House Appropriations Committee. “If you figure out how to do this in a way that reduces the impact, people are going to say obviously, you had more money than you needed. On the other hand, if you come out and there are some problems people identify, you’re accused of grandstanding and trying to make it worse than it really is.” ...
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Today's Economist: Casey B. Mulligan: Patterns of Health Insurance Changes	15.5.2013	NY Times: Business
Today's Economist: Casey B. Mulligan: Patterns of Health Insurance Changes
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Obamacare Implodes	15.5.2013	American Spectator
Health policy economists are puzzled by a persistent slowdown in the growth of health care spending that seems to have started in mid-2005, and accelerated since then. The Wall Street Journal summarized it on Monday, saying , “The health [spending] growth rate has flattened out at about 3.9% over the last three years — a record low since the 1960s and down from the old normal of 6.2% to 9.7% in the 2000s.” Economists thought at first that the slowdown in spending was due to the recession, when people didn’t have the money to continue to increase health care spending as much as in the past. But new papers published in the journal Health Affairs last week provide “evidence that the moderation [in rising health spending] is durable, and that it is structural — the result of permanent changes in the health system itself rather than the business cycle,” as the Wall Street Journal further explained on Monday. These papers indicate a sharply reduced role for the recession in slowing ...
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Food stamps, crop insurance big issues in new farm bill	15.5.2013	Minnesota Public Radio: Politics
The House and Senate Agriculture committees are debating a new farm bill this week. The current legislation directed more than $1 billion to Minnesota last year in the form of food stamp benefits and subsidized crop insurance for farmers. Those two expensive programs are the most controversial portions of the new bill Congress is considering.
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Federal cuts lower Calif. budget outlook	15.5.2013	Twincities.com: Nation
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Riding a wave of state tax revenue, Gov. Jerry Brown released a budget proposal Tuesday that looks much different from the ones Californians have become accustomed to in recent years: It has a surplus.

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