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Insurers Face $1 Trillion Revenue at Stake in Health Law

Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 8:13 AM EDT (Bloomberg.com)
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Health insurers will gain $1 trillion in new revenue over the next eight years under the 2010 health- care law, assuming it’s upheld by the Supreme Court, according to a Bloomberg Government study. The amount is equal to about one-half percent of the nation’s estima …

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Mitt Romney Debt Speech Ignores Key Facts

Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 6:56 AM EDT (The Huffington Post)
Seeded by R.Francis Rubio

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney decried the "prairie fire" of U.S. debt Tuesday, he ignored some of the sparks that set it ablaze.

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Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan CEO, Defends Lobbying, Fends Off Critics At Shareholders Meeting

Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 4:26 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
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At the annual JPMorgan Chase shareholders meeting on Tuesday morning in Tampa, Fla., CEO Jamie Dimon offered what amounted to a spirited defense of the bank’s efforts to lobby against stiffer financial regulation. “Our interest is the same as yours, make [the finan …

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Louisiana is the world's prison capital | NOLA.com

Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 9:02 AM EDT (NOLA.com)
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Louisiana is the world's prison capital. The state imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of its U.S. counterparts. First among Americans means first in the world. Louisiana's incarceration rate is nearly triple Iran's, seven times China's and 10 times Germany's.

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Rhode Island Considers 'Homeless Bill Of Rights' To End Discrimination

Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 7:25 AM EDT (The Huffington Post)
Seeded by R.Francis Rubio

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Eddie Vega has been homeless for a year. He was waiting for a bus one day last week when a police officer rolled up to ask what he was doing and where he was headed. Vega said it's the kind of subtle harassment that happens all the time.

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JPMorgan Chase Has Lost $20 Billion On Its Bad Trade, Taking Into Account Share Price

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 2:21 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
Seeded by T1Truth

By now you may have heard that JPMorgan Chase lost $2 billion on a bad trade. Multiply that by 10, and you're starting to get a better idea of how much it has really lost. That's because the share price of the biggest U.S. bank by assets has tumbled by more than 11 percent sin …

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Warren echoes Brown stand on NOAA fisheries policy »Gloucester, MA

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 1:38 PM EDT ()
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By Richard Gaines Their agreement is that the federal government has been levying excessive fines and overregulating the fleet, which has been further weakened from a combination of statutory limits on catch levels and a commodification market program adopted in 2010 and taken d …

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