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WTO And the Future of Fish

Julie Packard | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Monterey Bay Aquarium, World Trade Organization, Ted Danson, Climate, Julie Packard, Seafood Watch, Subsidies, Sustainable Seafood, Wto, Climate Crisis, Fisheries, Overfishing, Seafood, Oceana, Green News
Julie Packard

Solving our global fisheries crisis will require global solutions, and involvement from everyone. Making good choices about the seafood we eat is a great way for each of us to do our part.

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Health Care: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dialogue, Fundamentalism, Culture War, Health Care Plan, Compromise, Immigrants, Poor, Health Care Provider, Abortion, Values, Health Care Coverage, Insurance Plan, Contraception, Poverty Reduction, Justice, Pro-Life Democrats, Member of Congress, Health Care, Status Quo, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Health Insurance Reform, Religion, Pregnancies, Democracy, Abortion Reduction, Culture Wars, Subsidies, Public Option, Tax Dollars, Common Ground, Medicaid, Families, Federal Subsidies, Stereotype, Healthcare, Interpretation, Moral Values, Agendas, Progressive, Culture Warrior, Women, Application, Health Plan, Principle, Segregation, Faith Community, Schip, Abortion Debate, Moral Imperative, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Healthcare Reform, Religious Community, Rhetoric, Politics News
Jim Wallis

We've recently seen the abortion rhetoric really heat up to ridiculous proportions. Those with opposing views are being stereotyped and demonized. And facts are taking a back seat to sound bytes.

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President Obama Brings 10,000 Manufacturing Jobs Back from China (Headlines We'd Like to See)

Gilbert B. Kaplan | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Digital TV, International Trade, Unemployment, President Obama, Currency, Jobs, Manufacturing, Subsidies, Election Results, China, Business News
Gilbert B. Kaplan

We have neglected the manufacturing base of our economy in much the same way we have neglected financial regulation. There simply is no manufacturing policy in the United States.

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AP: Health Care Bill May Cut Employer Mandate

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Harry Reid, Health Care Reform Bill, Health Care Mandate Penalties, Employer Mandate, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Subsidies, Pre-Existing Conditions, Health Care, Mandate Penalties, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Businesses would not be required to provide health insurance under legislation being readied for Senate debate, but large firms wou...

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The Public Option Is Not Where You Draw the Line

Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Subsidies, Cbo, Single Payer, Public Option, Health Care Costs, Politics News
Aaron E. Carroll

Many are rallying around the public option like it's a singular opportunity to save the world. It's not; it's not even close.

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Shuffling the Deck Chairs on Reform

Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Bipartisanship, Subsidies, Health Care Costs, Olympia Snowe, Politics News
Aaron E. Carroll

I was wrong to think that no Republican would vote for reform. I was wrong to think that Baucus had been wasting his time. I was wrong to assume that there was no point to negotiating or giving up anything.

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Health Care, Immigrants, and the Character of Our Country

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Law, Allison Johnson, Debate, Undocumented Immigrants, President Obama, Scripture, Media, Health Care Plan, Immigration, Immigrants, Christians for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Legislation, Immigration Status, Faith Groups, Fact Checkers, Moral Obligation, Public Policies, Immigrant, Immigrant Children, Christian Scriptures, Members of Congress, Values, Pregnant Women, Policy Debate, Health Care Coverage, Moral Priorities, Teaching, Stranger, Safety Net, Health Care, Christians, Public Policy, Fear, Lying, Subsidies, Politics, Community, Basic Human Needs, Medicaid, Congress, Faith Communities, Migrants, Moral Issue, Reform Legislation, Moral Consideration, Compassion, Jewish, Moral Values, Moral Issues, Moral Mandate, Inclusion, Faith Community, Political Feasibility, Health Care Reform, Hospitals, Undocumented Immigrant, Legal Immigrants, Christian, Health Care System, Politics News
Jim Wallis

With an issue like health, the faith community has a unique and important role to play -- to define and raise the moral issues beneath the policy debate.

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Fisker Automotive Gets $529 Million Government Loan To Build Electric Cars

Wall Street Journal | JOSH MITCHELL and STEPHEN POWER | Posted 11.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Doe, Cars, Subsidies, Emissions, Mpg, Roadster, Nina, Loans, Karma, Electric Cars, Detroit, Environment, Fuel Standards, Finland, Al Gore, Department of Energy, Fisker Automotive, Global Warming, Tesla, Business News

A tiny car company backed by former Vice President Al Gore has just gotten a $529 million U.S. government loan to help build a hybrid sports car in Fi...

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Why Americans Are Miseducated About Health Care Reform

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 11.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Abc, Public Option, Trudy Lieberman, Triggers, Rick Klein, Mandates, Health-Insurance-Exchange, Subsidies, Media, Health Care, Co-Ops, Journalism, Healthcare, Media News
Allison Kilkenny

A media consumed with tracking Obama's popularity has failed to educate the American citizenry about the key elements of the health care debate. Many so-called journalists are guilty, like ABC's Rick Klein.

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34 Years

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

Read More: Cuba, Living Alone, Raul Castro, Leaving Home, Subsidies, Independence, Fidel Castro, Soviet Union, World News
Yoani Sanchez

Since I left home in Cuba, I have learned to value autonomy, to distrust the subsidies and all these "gifts" that they constantly throw in the faces of citizens.

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Healthcare and Food Policy: Part of the Same Conversation

Paula Crossfield | Posted 08.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Robert Reich, Lobbyists, Food Policy, Agribusiness, Health Insurance, Subsidies, Healthcare Reform, Single Payer, Barack Obama, Healthcare, Campaign Finance, Bill Moyers, Green News
Paula Crossfield

The critics of single-payer are either paid to tell you this, or are brainwashed by the multi-million dollar lobbying and advertising paid for by insurance companies and the pharmaceutical industry.

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Fuel Economy Standards Are Only Half a Solution

Andrew Winston | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Automakers, US Military, Chevy Volt, Gm, Gas Tax, Fuel Efficiency, Fuel Efficiency Standards, Obama Administration, Subsidies, California Fuel Rule, Green News
Andrew Winston

In a remarkably bold regulatory move, the Obama administration is setting new, aggressive fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks.

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Digging Us a Deeper Hole: Runaway Housing Subsidies

Charles A. Clarkson | Posted 03.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Homeowners, Housing Subsidy, Subsidies, Obama Congress Speech, Housing Crisis, Business News
Charles A. Clarkson

Few Americans realize it, but more than predatory lending or deregulation, more than Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, decades of runaway housing subsidies are a fundamental cause of the housing bubble.

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Leaving Cards on the Counter-Terror Table: Ways to Better Wage the "War on Terror"

Shahid Buttar | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tariffs, Free Trade, Military, War on Terror, Counterterrorism, Foreign Policy, Agriculture, Corporate Welfare, Civil Liberties, Liberty, National Security, Obama Administration, Subsidies, Military Contractors, War on Drugs, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

We need not sacrifice our nation's fundamental constitutional freedoms to address extremist violence. Rather, we need merely stop pursuing corporate subsidies that inadvertently encourage it.

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Obama's Economic Paradox: Can You Have "Bailout" and "Stimulus" at the Same Time?

Randall Amster | Posted 03.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Free Market Capitalism, Obama Stimulus, Titanic, Obama Administration, Bailout Plan, Subsidies, Capitalism, Stimulus Plan, Obama Stimulus Plan, Economic Stimulus Package, Bailout, Stimulus Package, Tax Cuts, Hurricane Katrina, Green Economy, Free Market, Stimulus Bill, Business, Financial Crisis, Politics News
Randall Amster

Perhaps the centerpiece of the current bill (at least for people's pockets in the short-term) is an actual weekly paycheck bump to the tune of about eight bucks.

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Sweet Surprise

Christiana Wyly | Posted 12.26.2008 | Living

Read More: Children's Health Foundation, Children, Corn, Sweetener, Green Living, Parenting, Childhood Nutrition, Subsidies, Sugar, Childhood Obesity, Nutrition, Tv, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Children's Health, Soil, Video, Chf, Living News
Christiana Wyly

What are we starving for? We are addicted to corn like we are addicted to sugar like we are addicted to oil. It's the cheap oil that enables the production of the cheap corn in the first place.

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Detroit, the Last Stand of Middle America

Stephen Herrington | Posted 12.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Automaker Bailout, Economy, Fuel Efficiency, Financial Crisis, Subsidies, Labor Unions, Energy Policy, Detroit Bailout, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Business News
Stephen Herrington

The question is not and never has been whether we should subsidize automakers for making the same fuel inefficient products, it is how to change what they make in the middle of an economic catastrophe.

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Bipartisan Nuke Subsidies

David Roberts | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Loan Guarantees, Nuclear Energy, Energy, Gang of Ten, Subsidies, Nuclear Power, Politics News
David Roberts

grist.orgThere's heated debate in green circles about the Gang of 20 Senate energy bill -- the New Energy Reform Act of 2008 -- which would open up s...

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End of the Line for Biofuels?

Jeremy Jacquot | Posted 07.15.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Subsidies, Ethanol, Biofuels, Alternative Energy, Biofuel, Renewable Energy, Environmentalism, Green News
Jeremy Jacquot

Rightly blamed for everything from rising food and commodity prices to water degradation and soil erosion, biofuels have seen their cachet plummet in recent months.

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