Twitter and news events
For many of us out there, we watch tv to get our news. We stay up to date on all of the popular news stations, and watch tv for all of the latest information. More and more people however, have started to gain their news from other sources. Over the past few years, people have begun to move to the internet to receive their news information. Popular news outlets are putting more and more time into their websites, and news is updated a lot more rapidly online, than it can be on television. People find that getting their news on the internet is easier than going to their tv, because news...
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Going to school these days cost a bunch. Students are going in droves and snapping up whatever government money they can; scholarships, grants, subsidized loans, and mom and dads savings. Most are doing a good job and are graduating with decent grades. Some even have prospects of being employed. They go on interviews, hold meetings, dress the part, purchase items they know they cannot afford yet, and comfort themselves with high-fives and pizza. The good news is that there are some jobs that are always open for whomever wants them; fast-food restaurants, selling insurance, being a greeter at...
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Net News
- Should doctors use a ‘shopping cart’ for health care services? February 22, 2012RAND Corporation’s Robert Brook makes the case for an Amazon.com-like checkout system of medicine, in the latest issue of JAMA: What if every time a practitioner used an electronic medical record system to order a procedure or test for a patient, an electronic shopping cart appeared, indicating how much that “purchase” would cost? What if at the end of the d […]
- The GOP’s big donor advantage, and small donor problem February 22, 2012Dan Eggen and T.W. Farnam profile the “rarefied group of millionaires and billionaires acting as kingmakers in the GOP contest.” “I’m against very wealthy people attempting to or influencing elections,” casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, who is funding a pro-Gingrich super PAC, said in an interview published this week in Forbes magazine. “But as long as it’s doab […]
- Our unequal tax system, in one HTML table February 22, 2012Bruce Bartlett and Kevin Drum point to a striking table in the 2012 Economic Report of the President (pdf) showing that there’s a huge variation in what people of similar income levels actually pay in federal taxes: Read full article >> […]
