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...Rock and preach tax cuts while I preach a tax increase," Huckabee told TIME. "He has a tool that I do not have, called deficit spending, and can shift--or at least not fix--the Medicaid issue, which is causing most of my heartburn." Medicaid costs in Arkansas have risen from $1.2 billion a decade ago to $2 billion, and Huckabee, like Governors everywhere else, wants Washington to start shouldering more of the burden...
...mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me,” Charles Dickens writes. In baseball, the mists rise solemnly and with little warning, and if they don’t today they can tomorrow or next year, and this is its grace...
France has fallen--but Freedomland has risen...
With $570 billion in assets, up 29% in the past two years, credit unions have grown at about four times the rate of the $8 trillion commercial-banking industry. And as credit unions have steadily consolidated, membership has risen annually, to 83 million clients today. "Banks take the consumer for granted--and for an awful lot of money," says Dan Mica, president of the Credit Union National Association, the industry's largest trade group. "They are tacking on fees and have less interest in serving small businesses than they used to. We're filling the vacuum...
There has, of course, always been attrition in high schools, but since MCAS was introduced, the numbers have risen at a disturbing rate. According to data collected and analyzed by Walt Haney at Boston College, in the years before MCAS was introduced in 1997, only six to seven percent of students turned up missing between grades nine and ten. In 2001, the rate at which students were missing between grades nine and ten had nearly doubled to 12.4 percent. The rate at which Latinos were missing from grade ten had also nearly doubled, from 17 percent to 29 percent...