With President Obama seriously considering including a chained CPI in the budget he’ll release next week, the National Journal takes a close look at the chained CPI, questioning whether it’s the right formula to apply to people on fixed incomes like Social Security beneficiaries and veterans. The article gets to the core problem: These groups… Read more »
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LA Times Proves Chuck Schumer Wrong: Border Security Technology Does Exist
The Los Angeles Times is undercutting a narrative promoted by New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer when it reported on Wednesday that border security technology does in fact exist. In a Wednesday article, the LA Times’ Brian Bennett details new drone technology in use at the border. “A sophisticated airborne radar system developed to track… Read more »
Most Americans think teen pregnancy is getting worse. Most Americans are wrong.
Teen births and pregnancies have plummeted over the past two decades, down 42 percent from 1990. Most Americans, it turns out, have no idea that we’re actually in the midst of a big public health success story. In a new survey from the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, 50 percent thought the… Read more »
CNN’s expert concludes: attack from N. Korea ‘evidence that something is going terribly wrong’
North Korean leader and trendsetter Kim Jong-un is turning up the heat again, reportedly drawing up plans to strike Hawaii, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and Austin, Texas. CNN called in Scott Snyder, an expert on Korea for the Council on Foreign Relations, to put this in greater context…