Climate Change, Blackadder, and Percentages of Mystery

Scott Bittle
Oct 1, 2009

The battle over climate change has been joined in the Senate, and judging from the first day, it's not only going to be as heated as health care, it's also going to be just as obscure.

The first news stories, for example, tell us that the Senate version of a global warming bill introduced this week wants to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 20 percent from 2005 levels, compared with 17 percent in the House bill.

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How Economic Insecurity is Pressuring Social Security

Scott Bittle
Sep 28, 2009

Here's a measure of both how important Social Security is and the problems it faces: the program will actually run a deficit over the next two years because fewer people are paying in and more are applying for benefits.

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