Tag: money
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November 09, 2009 02:24 PM EST --
What if there was a way to get $8 billion in the pockets of hard working low- and middle -income Americans and it didn't cost taxpayers a penny? Should we do it? Each year $8 billion is spent at various . . .
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October 24, 2008 11:46 AM EDT --
Most college graduates walk out not only with the sheepskin but with loans to pay for that education.
But how has that changed as the economy has tanked and jobs are getting scarcer?
We at Minnesota . . .
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February 20, 2009 03:18 PM EST --
Erin Lund doesn't feel that bad about paying medical bills late. The nurse from Duluth said she can't muster up the guilt when insurance costs are rising. So those health care bills go to the . . .
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October 21, 2008 04:29 PM EDT --
MPR and the Citizen's League team up for a live event discussion in Policy and a Pint: Economic Meltdown, Wednesday, October 22, 2008. Host Steve Seel will have Senior economics editor . . .
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August 19, 2008 10:54 AM EDT --
A colleague of mine said the other day that she tells her significant other to slow down when he's driving. The reason: To avoid an expensive speeding ticket.
Now sure, from time to time we are . . .
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October 31, 2009 11:18 AM EDT --
I watched Mr. James Galbraith (the younger) on Bill Moyers' Journal, on PBS last night. He said that we should offer early retirement to guys like me.
The youth of today, he says, need to be employed. . . .
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September 09, 2009 10:16 AM EDT --
Yesterday I learned that Congress wants to fine an individual $750 for not having health insurance. I was thinking that the fine would be indexed by income, basically from zero. In that scenario, I expected . . .
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November 21, 2009 11:22 AM EST --
The large middle class lasted 50 years, so lets just get over ourselves for once. Sure, the large middle class HAD a solid foundation, but now it doesn't.
The transfer of economic power is happening . . .
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August 18, 2009 10:24 AM EDT --
Lots of people have money worries these days, no matter how up the economic indicators are starting to look. What are your biggest financial concerns?
This morning on Midmorning, Kerri Miller talks . . .
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July 30, 2009 10:31 AM EDT --
The AP reported this morning that Twin Cities Metro Transit has been awarded $1.3 million to hire 5 police officers. Read the whole story at mprnewsq.org , and add your comments here.
According to . . .
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July 31, 2009 10:20 AM EDT --
This morning in the 10 o'clock hour of Midmorning, Kerri talks couples and money with finance expert Ruth Hayden. Listen at 10 a.m. CDT and add your comments here.
The slug from the Midmorning page . . .
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July 27, 2009 01:33 PM EDT --
Never in the bill.
1) Eliminate insurance deductions 2) Single payer
Leaving the bill.
1) Parallel public plan 2) Raise taxes on high earners 3) Current, fee for service structure, for Medicare . . .
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July 27, 2009 10:18 AM EDT --
This morning on Midmorning at 10 a.m., Kerri Miller talks to Matt Gross, "The Frugal Traveler", about ways to still visit some of the world's greatest places even during this recession. He writes the . . .
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September 17, 2009 01:22 PM EDT --
Here I am, minding my own business, listening to MPR, and on comes an "expert" on getting a job. A caller had been out since November, just like me, so my ears perked up a bit.
This expert started out . . .
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July 15, 2009 10:27 AM EDT --
Not that long ago, I mentioned that the company downsizing I (almost) survived, had the specialists at the company dropping like flies. Now it seems, I can't go on any forum without getting further examples . . .
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July 13, 2009 02:27 PM EDT --
I'm sure some people remember a study done several years ago. It seems that conservatives are happy optimists, while liberals are sad pessimists.
Conservatives, as a generalization, tend to be pessimistic . . .
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October 12, 2008 03:14 PM EDT --
If I had a quarter for every time the phrases Wall Street and Main Street were mentioned in the last month, I could bail out our economy. Where is the discussion of the folk who could never afford to . . .
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September 11, 2009 09:57 AM EDT --
Welfare flourishes in bad economic times, and capitalism flourishes in good economic times. I seriously think some here on Gather are trying to fight high tide.
The far left will have to stop complaining . . .
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July 04, 2009 04:43 PM EDT --
The single payer solution must be a compelling argument, though one I never latched onto. The notion I have is that cost cutting is the "soup stock", while insurance is merely water. I hope that many . . .
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