Word: reductionism
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No one expects the Governors to get anything close to the $6 billion in federal aid they were asking for last week to cover this year's Medicaid shortfalls. Mississippi may be in the direst straits; its Medicaid program ran out of money entirely last Friday, as lawmakers argued over...
Europeans love to argue that the U.S. has a strategy for winning the war against terrorism but none for winning the peace. Poverty, they say (and I agree), is a persistent source of instability and violence. The remedy is in their own hands. Few ever expected a Republican Administration to...
More important, Bono has given a public face to the agenda of the developing world at an important moment. Within the next six months, crucial decisions will be made on the shape of the rich world's policies for poverty reduction. Next month in Monterrey, Mexico, President Bush and other...
Such sharp increases over a short period are unlikely to be repeated, say analysts. Their consensus is for a nasty short-to-medium-term correction and maybe even a dip in prices, followed by a slow, steady return to growth. A Merrill Lynch report released last year suggested that if...
More financial aid is generally a good thing, but in the case of work-study programs, more direct aid would be less beneficial to Harvard students in the long run. Any improvements in aid packages should focus on the reduction of loans.