NCPA Media: NCPA in the News
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May 01, 2006 Medicare's Problems Growing Worse, Trustees Say
WASHINGTON - The financial condition of Medicare is growing progressively worse and its problems will soon eclipse those of Social Security, the trustees of the government's two biggest programs said today.
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Apr 26, 2006 Attack on Exxon Mobil’s successful ex-CEO is nonsensical coming from N.Y. Times’ pundit
WASHINGTON - In 1930, as the Great Depression set in, reporters asked Babe Ruth how he could justify making more money than the President of the United States - $80,000 a year compared to Herbert Hoover's $75,000.
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Apr 16, 2006 Don't count on politicians to rescue students
A battle is raging inside the Republican Party of Texas. Ironically, it is a battle over educational opportunities for poor, minority children whose parents rarely vote Republican and who, when they reach adulthood, are unlikely to vote Republican themselves.
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Apr 10, 2006 Penalizing women
First, there was the No Child Left Behind Act to overhaul federal education law. Now comes "Leaving Women Behind: Modern Families, Outdated Laws," a new book that says many government programs "penalize working wives, single mothers and widows."
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Apr 10, 2006 Steps to Social Security reform
Tax Day is right around the corner. And if you're like me, you're wringing your hands about how much we owe to the federal government. But whether we realize it or not, most people pay more in Social Security taxes than income taxes. And if the program is not reformed, the payroll tax rate will have to climb so high that the amount we pay today will look like chump change.
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