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Will a Delay on the Climate Treaty be Time Well-Spent?

Scott Bittle
Nov 16, 2009

World leaders flatly admitted this weekend what everyone pretty much knew: there won't be a major deal on climate change at the big conference in Copenhagen next month. Instead, leaders will try to keep the process going, in hopes of coming up with a deal next year.

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Listening To Young Americans On The Deficit

Francie Grace
Nov 13, 2009

You wouldn't think the bottom line on the $1.6 trillion federal budget deficit and $11.9 trillion national debt crisis could be summed up in a single sentence, but when the right words whizzed by, the Wall Street Journal's David Wessel was quick to point them out.

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  • Increase in Test Taking, Not Marred by Typical Decrease in Score
  • Fewer Americans Without Health Insurance, But the Good News Ends There
  • Income, by race and ethnicity
  • Lack of Realism?
  • Nearly two-thirds approve of affirmative action being based on income rather than race
  • Americans are divided on whose responsibility it is to ensure that citizens have health insurance and income for retirement
  • Average income, by educational attainment
  • Lower-income and less educated Americans are more concerned than others about people taking advantage of welfare
  • Average income of the poorest Americans fluctuates
  • Income gap between richest and poorest
  • Uninsured children by family income
  • Lack of health insurance coverage, by income
  • Nearly two-thirds approve of affirmative action being based on income rather than race
  • Income, by educational attainment
  • Income
  • Large majorities say corporations and upper-income Americans pay "too little" in taxes
  • Top earners pay proportionately more federal income taxes
  • Majorities say their income is not keeping pace with the cost of living and more than one in four say they have...
  • Non-retired adults say they expect Social Security will be a minor source of income, but more than four in 10...
  • Large majorities of Americans say people should have to pay Social Security taxes on income over $90,000
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