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by TRAVIS WALDRON, Think Progress
Yang Yuanqing, the chief executive of computer distributing company Lenovo, has decided to distribute his $3 million bonus to 10,000 of his company’s lower-paid workers, many of whom are manufacturers in the company’s Chinese...[MORE]...
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Via Coffee Party USA, J'nene Solidarity Kay, Eric Byler 
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June 3, 2012 8:24 AM
Guys I'm lovin' the class of 2012! What a great concept!
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It makes sense. If you improve the quantity – as well as the quality of care-centered communications, it is likely that patients will feel staff is more responsive, and better communication specifically about pain management and medications would increase those scores. However, care-centered conversations can often lose out to administrative and transactional dialog leaving little time to build relationships, emphathize, and engage in other more affective communications with encouragement and coaching. Another survey last week on communication, this one by Ponemon, found that outdated communications devices can make it harder to deliver effective patient care. AComputerWorld article notes: “Clinicians in the survey estimated that only 45% of each workday is spent with patients; the remaining 55% is spent communicating and collaborating with other clinicians and using EMRs and other clinical IT systems.” An infographic on the survey shows other highlights:
MORE:http://epatientexperience.com/are-care-centered-conversations-the-key-to-success/?goback=%2Egde_2280818_member_241599108
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Few will even notice major cuts in our nation’s food stamp program, according to Rep. Steve King (R-IA).
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I feel kind of sick hearing this. For ALL the people I know on food stamps, the $$ provided is not enough to eat regularly. You have supplement your food with food banks and/or charity dinners regularly to make it on that level of aid. Delete the scoop?
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By Ann Carrns for the New York Times About half of United States adults ages 19 to 64 didn’t have health insurance for at least part of last year or were underinsured, a new report from the Commonwealth Fund says. The fund, a private nonprofit organization that finances research into health care and health policy issues, conducts the health insurance survey every two years. One bright spot, the report found, is that the proportion of young adults without health insurance fell significantly over the last two years, probably because of a provision of the Affordable Care Act that allows young adults to stay on their parents’ health plans until age 26. The rule took effect in September 2010. Nearly eight out of 10 (79 percent) young adults reported that they were insured, up from 69 percent in 2010. That marks “an abrupt reversal in a decadelong climb” in the number of uninsured young adults, the report said. Uninsured rates for other age groups, however, either rose or stayed the same. About half of adults ages 19 to 64 didn’t have health insurance for all of 2012 or were underinsured, meaning that they had insurance but struggled to pay for medical costs anyway. MORE:http://www.healthcare-now.org/about-half-of-adults-lacked-adequate-health-coverage-in-2012 Delete the scoop?
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By The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program
Protecting American jobs is one of the legacies of the Revolutionary war. Why is it not important to politicians today? 
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May 14, 9:38 AM
Save and create more American manufacturing. Delete the scoop?
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"Big money influences both parties, not because they are interested in advancing democratic decision-making but because they want their agenda passed. And, affluent and corporate interests are advancing an agenda that is not in step with what the majority of Americans want." READ MORE HERE: http://www.policyshop.net/home/2013/5/9/small-donors-are-actually-part-of-the-solution-not-the-probl.html
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The co\u00adop movement is gaining steam, drawing from new energies and a renewed interest in the model.
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The movement is growing for democratically run businesses in our country. Coops can be very successful and very long lived operations with deep roots and support for the communities they are in. Sound good? Delete the scoop?
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Thom Hartmann comments on the news for Monday, March 25, 2013.
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March 26, 10:32 AM
"In today's On the News segment: Minutes before 5am, early Saturday morning, members of the Senate did something they haven't done in four years - they passed a budget; there is an extreme wealth divide between the 1% and the 99% in our nation. But it turns out, the divide between the 1% and poorest in our nation is jaw-dropping; Rupert Murdoch has been trying to convince lawmakers to revise media ownership rules that prevent him from acquiring The Los Angelos Times, and more." Delete the scoop?
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America Split in Two: Five Ugly Extremes of Inequality Delete the scoop?
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Details on the wealth and income distributions in the United States (1% of households control 35% of the wealth), and how to use these distributions as power indicators. Via Marianne Richards Castiglia Delete the scoop?
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Dean Baker: Don't shelter banks from prosecution. Use anti-trust laws to break them up. Delete the scoop?
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Our Budget, Our Stories The federal budget is our budget. It affects our lives every day, from the roads we drive on to the health care we receive. It is personal and local – our taxes fund it, and our communities receive support through it in the form of grants and services. The Faces of the Budget project tells the story of the federal budget through ordinary folks’ personal experience. We’re illustrating all the ways the federal budget touches people’s lives – and what they think about budget decisions being made in Washington D.C.
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What is it? According to the Academic Pediatric Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, it is the effects on poverty on health and well being.
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PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The Biggest "Takers" and Societal Parasites Are the Rich, Not the Working Class and Poor Corporations Stopped Paying In the past twenty years, corporate profits have quadrupled while the corporate tax percent has dropped by half. The payroll tax, paid by workers, has doubled. In effect, corporations have decided to let middle-class workers pay for national investments that have largely benefited businesses over the years. The greater part of basic research, especially for technology and health care, has been conducted with government money. Even today 60% of university research is government-supported. Corporations use highways and shipping lanes and airports to ship their products, the FAA and TSA and Coast Guard and Department of Transportation to safeguard them, a nationwide energy grid to power their factories, and communications towers and satellites to conduct online business. Yet as corporate profits surge and taxes plummet, our infrastructure is deteriorating. TheAmerican Society of Civil Engineers estimates that $3.63 trillion is needed over the next seven years to make the necessary repairs. MORE:http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17960-the-biggest-takers-and-societal-parasites-are-the-rich-not-the-working-class-and-poor Delete the scoop?
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It is responsible for an estimated half-trillion dollars in federal spending every year, is hated by nearly everyone who studies it and is based on an American lifestyle older than the space program. 
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May 13, 7:24 PM
What you may not have known about why the USA does not change the outdated 'poverty line' equation. Although it is outdated, if they change it, many elected officials will have the inflated numbers attatched to their tenure statistics.
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May 13, 8:17 PM
Right. Part of the problem is the accurately recording and accounting for that in an updated figures explanation. It would be a shock!
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May 13, 8:19 PM
Oh, and excuse me, you are welcome. Thank you for your comments.
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According to recent polls, a strong majority of Americans have a coherent to-do list for Washington. The surprise is it's actually a smart set of solutions. Via Monica S Mcfeeters 
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You can always count on Bill Moyers for an earnest look at the world. Delete the scoop?
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Immoral politics. 
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April 14, 2:35 AM
More month than money? Count on it, honored elders.
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The battle over the chained CPI provides a great case study in the state of American democracy.
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CEOs these days aren’t just slashing worker jobs to add on to their own rewards. They’re slashing worker pay as well.
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California College of the Arts professor Michael Swaine has been mending clothing in San Francisco's Tenderloin District for over 12 years. He not only fixes clothes, he builds community.
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The late Venezuelan president believed people needed and deserved a comfortable baseline from which to survive and prosper, and he put that ahead of capitalist shows of his country's oil wealth.
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Yes, that really happens.
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Excellent. The writer by the way, Barbara Ehrenreich, is still writing about this subject actively. Delete the scoop?
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From the budget terms you need to know to how it impacts your state, the best interactives on the looming budget cuts.
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