Health care costs in the U.S. are increasing at their lowest rate in nearly a decade, according to the latest report from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which each year reports on health care spending and offers its forecast for spending into the future.
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Health care
The “tax wedge” is the percentage of total labour costs that never reaches the employee’s wallet but goes straight into the coffers of the state. As such, it’s a good approximation for much of what’s wrong with Europe’s economy, says Peer Steinbrueck, German Minister of Finance.
Consider:
The average tax wedge
Although Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth,” and its opus built around the premise that Greenland’s 630,000 cubic miles of ice is melting won an Oscar, it’s not based in reality, says Investor’s Business Daily (IBD).
Consider:
Satellite data published in the November 2005 issue of Science did show that Greenland
As the rich get richer, they get more generous. Much more generous, says USA Today.
The number of individual donations of $100 million or more hit a record in 2006, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, which compiles a yearly list of the biggest givers.
Last year, there were 21 donations
American and world fisheries have entered a period of rapid and unprecedented decline. To halt the slide, government should treat fish the same way it treats livestock as private property, says H. Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis.
Privatisation of marine resources has worked
