The US Environmental Protection Agency has been criticized by environmentalists as being too business-friendly, but recent statements from the agency on climate change suggest it's warming up to environmentalist views. The US Climate Change Science Program, a government agency, also seems to feel to speak its mind.
Pew is also as balanced as you'll get on global warming, although at the end of the day they lean more left than right.
During the past five years average public college tuition has increased by a whopping 35% (beating out the 11% achieved by private schools) (NYT). This increase has outpaced inflation and drawn the attention of lawmakers intent on addressing students’ ability to pay for college and higher education’s ability to rein in costs.
With baby boomers teetering on retirement and companies straining to pay their pensioners, America is bracing to see how we'll keep our retirees afloat without sinking the rest of us. See citizenJoe's issue guide on Social Security and brief on private pensions for the two issues being bandied in Congress. Here we offer the retiree lay of the land…
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