The government safety net was created to keep Americans from abject poverty, but the poorest households no longer receive a majority of government benefits.
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Even Critics of Safety Net Increasingly Depend on It
Poll finds majority would replace all members if they could.
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Americans Want to Change Up Congress
Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) announced Friday he would delay consideration of measure to combat online piracy, bowing to pressure from a coalition of Internet companies, including Google and Wikipedia, that rallied consumers to their side by saying the legislation could lead to the censorship of popular sites. Read full article > >
COLUMBIA, S.C. — With voters heading to the polls Saturday in what is clearly a win-or-go-home contest for most of the remaining Republican presidential candidates, there is simply no way to escape the onslaught of political ads here, the majority of them negative. Read full article > >
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Candidates and their supporters flood S.C. airwaves with ads
Majority prefer Mitt Romney over Jon Huntsman.
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Mormons: Voters Won’t Back Romney
With the Muslim Brotherhood in reach of an outright majority in Egypt’s parliament, the Obama administration has begun to shift from decades of hostility toward it.
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U.S. Reverses Policy in Reaching Out to Muslim Brotherhood
Nevermind that it’s a federal holiday. And nevermind that the vast majority of Washington area schoolchildren will be snoozing late, savoring their last day of winter break. On Monday morning, a few students are headed to class. Schools opened their doors Jan. 2 in Alexandria and Howard, St. Mary’s and Charles counties, while elsewhere in the region — and in eight of the nation’s 10 largest school systems — students are free to enjoy the nation’s official celebration of New Year’s Day. Read full article > >
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Some students, parents left asking: What holiday?
Technically, the financial crisis began in late 2008, with the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers. But 2009 was the year we really felt it. It was in 2009 that we lost more than 5 million jobs — the majority of the total job losses caused by the recession. By 2010, we seemed to turn the corner. The economy added more than a million jobs. Growth returned. The financial markets stabilized. Many forecasters looked to 2011 with real optimism. Read full article > >
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2011 in economic policy: The year of the aftershocks
Technically, the financial crisis began in late 2008, with the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers. But 2009 was the year we really felt it. It was in 2009 that we lost more than 5 million jobs — the majority of the total job losses caused by the recession. By 2010, we seemed to turn the corner. The economy added more than a million jobs. Growth returned. The financial markets stabilized. Many forecasters looked to 2011 with real optimism. Read full article > >
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2011, the year of the aftershocks
Showing a new conciliatory tone, Senate leaders opened Congressional business Thursday by suggesting that a bipartisan compromise may come soon on a spending measure to keep the government running past Friday and a bill to extend a one-year cut in the payroll tax rate paid by 160 million workers. Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), who has been holding up a $1 trillion spending measure that would fund much of the government through next September, said he believes both issues can be resolved “in the next few days.” Read full article > >
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Senate leaders say deal on spending, tax cut measures may come soon
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — With just one magazine cover, a popular Pakistani actress has managed to offend her country’s conservative majority, spark cross-border controversies and trigger promises of an investigation from her country’s interior minister. Veena Malik achieved all this by posing for FHM India , a men’s magazine. On the cover of the magazine’s December issue, Malik appears nude — although her folded arms across her breasts partially preserve her modesty — with the acronym ISI tattooed on her arm. The tattoo is an obvious allusion to Pakistan’s notorious spy agency, which has been accused, among other nefarious acts, of being involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks . Read full article > >
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Outcry over actress Veena Malik’s revealing FHM cover dominates Pakistani news
In a Congress crippled by partisan gridlock, each side is increasingly transparent about its political motivations. It used to be that the various press operations would spin and the leaders would at least pretend to lead. But in recent years, all pretense has fallen away. Last week, for example, when asked about the status of a jobs proposal, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) came clean about the factors affecting his scheduling of votes — mainly the desire for media coverage. “We’re not going to do that at midnight tonight. We’re going to have the votes when you folks can write about it during a decent news cycle,” Reid told reporters on Thursday. Read full article > >
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In Congress, partisanship is no longer something to hide
The Muslim Brotherhood says its political party has won a majority of run-off contests in the first round of Egypt’s parliamentary election.
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Egypt Brotherhood ‘wins run-offs’
Dozens of bodies were found in Homs, in the worst carnage between the Sunni Muslim majority and the Alawite minority since the unrest in Syria began.
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Large-Scale Killings Reported in Restive Syria City
Candidates and their supporters flood S.C. airwaves with ads
Thursday, January 19th, 2012Senate leaders say deal on spending, tax cut measures may come soon
Thursday, December 15th, 2011Outcry over actress Veena Malik’s revealing FHM cover dominates Pakistani news
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