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===== One Big Deadly Bill ===== | |||
[https://www.thebulwark.com/p/one-big-deadly-bill-bbb-medicaid-obamacare-insurance by JONATHAN COHN 3/7/25 THEBULWARK] | |||
But a series of recent studies have gone a long way toward proving that link. One such paper, which came out in May, was from Angela Wyse at Dartmouth and Bruce Meyer at the University of Chicago, and got the economics establishment talking because of how it used a clever design—linking up census and tax data—to show that the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion saved about 27,000 lives between 2010 and 2022. | |||
===== Many voters say Congress is broken. Could proportional representation fix it? ===== | |||
[https://www.npr.org/2023/11/18/1194448925/congress-proportional-representation-explainer by Hansi Lo Wang 18/11/23 npr] | |||
With an increasingly polarized Congress and fewer competitive elections, there are growing calls among some election reformers to change how voters elect members of the U.S. House of Representatives. | |||
===== State of Black America ===== | |||
[https://nul.org/state-of-black-america by National Urban League] | |||
In the 48th edition of the report, we’ve decided to reflect on a landmark piece of legislation that transformed everyday life in America and gave us a reason to create this report: the Civil Rights Act of 1964. | |||
===== State of Black America ===== | |||
[https://nul.org/state-of-black-america by National Urban League] | |||
In the 48th edition of the report, we’ve decided to reflect on a landmark piece of legislation that transformed everyday life in America and gave us a reason to create this report: the Civil Rights Act of 1964. | |||
===== Battleground America ===== | |||
[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/04/23/battleground-america?fbclid=IwAR0QSnXNoJISz8zzdxn9uVLNOOHzE39AjDE0xbvF3Dekb3Vj-AMgSKae8_Y The New Yorker 4/16/12 Jill Lepore] | [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/04/23/battleground-america?fbclid=IwAR0QSnXNoJISz8zzdxn9uVLNOOHzE39AjDE0xbvF3Dekb3Vj-AMgSKae8_Y The New Yorker 4/16/12 Jill Lepore] | ||
There are nearly three hundred million privately owned firearms in the United States: a hundred and six million handguns, a hundred and five million rifles, and eighty-three million shotguns. That works out to about one gun for every American. The gun that T. J. Lane brought to Chardon High School belonged to his uncle, who had bought it in 2010, at a gun shop. Both of Lane’s parents had been arrested on charges of domestic violence over the years. Lane found the gun in his grandfather’s barn. | There are nearly three hundred million privately owned firearms in the United States: a hundred and six million handguns, a hundred and five million rifles, and eighty-three million shotguns. That works out to about one gun for every American. The gun that T. J. Lane brought to Chardon High School belonged to his uncle, who had bought it in 2010, at a gun shop. Both of Lane’s parents had been arrested on charges of domestic violence over the years. Lane found the gun in his grandfather’s barn. | ||
