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POPSWhy college students drop out Most dropouts get overwhelmed by balancing work, school, and money. Only a quarter of college students typical live-in-the-dorms students; nearly as many have children.
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POPSWe already have rationed, socialized healthcare It's rationed by ability to pay - not need - and socialized by overcharging insured patients enough to cover costs for the un-insured. "We are ... the only advanced democracy on Earth -- the only wealthy nation -- that allows (health care) hardship for millions of its people."
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POPSWendell Potter: The Insurance Industry's Lethal Bottom Line When publicly held insurance companies spend most of their premium income on medical claims, their value on Wall Street plummets. Amendments have been introduced to require them to raise the percentage of our premium payments that actually goes into health care instead of executive salaries and lobbying Congress.
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POPSHow farm subsidies aggravate world hunger Subsidized grain gets sold or given away to poor countries, driving local farmers there out of business. Then, when food prices rise worldwide, poor people cannot afford imported food and no farms are left to grow it locally.
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POPSYour Senator is probably a millionaire These people have too much money to be representative of Americans generally, and they make too much of their money by investments regulated (or not) by laws of their own making.
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POPSAid, Not Troops, in Afghanistan I added my name to this letter to the President from over a dozen Christian leaders. Perhaps you'd like to do the same. Click thru to read the entire letter and then to sign it, if you wish.
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POPSADL: Beck is top hate monger Anti-Defamation League labels Glenn Beck the most toxic media hate monger operating in the USA today. And that's saying quite a lot!
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POPSSave $110 Billion or Spend $6.3 Trillion? Many say we can't afford the House's health care bill, which the CBO says will result in a net budget effect over 10 years of MINUS $110 Billion - a terrific return on our money. Yet we swallow the Pentagon's budget with scarcely a murmer, blithely spending $6.3 TRILLION over the same time, and ponder sending more troops abroad. It's absurd!