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To fix Obamacare, look back at another health care battle

Sep 6, 2017
Medicare Advantage was once in jeopardy, too. But then Congress stepped in.
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Who scores the GOP's revised health plan and its costs?

Mar 7, 2017
The Congressional Budget Office figures the price of new legislation and tries to predict behavioral changes.
 Tom Price, U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services, compares a copy of the Affordable Care Act, right, and a copy of the new House Republican health care bill at the White House daily press briefing.
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A broadband subsidy that could help narrow the "digital divide"

Apr 4, 2016
The FCC's $9.25 subsidy will open up broadband access to more low-income households.
A $9.25 broadband subsidy could help with issues related to digital inequality. 
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Most aid to families goes to working families

Apr 13, 2015
A majority of Americans who use certain aid programs are from working families.

Big change to farm subsidies

Mar 11, 2015
Taxpayers are on the hook after changes in the Farm Bill

Tracing the Obamacare subsidy

Mar 3, 2015
Insurance subsidies are central to the legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act.

The South is more likely to hand out corporate subsidies

Jun 2, 2014
The Atlanta Braves' new stadium will be funded in large part by taxpayer dollars.

For public good, not for profit.

Farm bill would cut subsidies, but will it matter?

Jan 29, 2014
For almost two decades, farmers have gotten what are called “direct payments” from the government.

At start of Ramadan, Egypt still feeling the strain

Jul 11, 2013
Turmoil continues in Egypt, but as news of $12 billion in aid and an interim prime minister appointment take hold, life on the ground in Cairo is also changing.

U.S., Mexico have lowest gas, carbon taxes in rich world

Jan 28, 2013
Among the world's most developed countries, Turkey and the Netherlands tax gas and carbon use at the highest rate; the U.S., Mexico and Canada tax carbon and gas at the lowest rates.