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Renaissance Of The Written Word
We owe a big part of the renaissance of the written word in recent months to Michelle Obama's memoir, “Becoming.” I… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) May 24, 201902
Jan
19
On The Nightstand
Michelle Obama talks about why Pippi Longstocking was her favorite book character as a kid, what books are on her n… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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The New York Times (@nytimes) December 06, 2018Our most important task as a nation is to make sure all our young people can achieve their dreams. We’ve started th… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) March 19, 2018Even when children grow up next to each other with parents who earn similar incomes, black boys fare worse than whi… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
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The Upshot (@UpshotNYT) March 19, 2018****
“White boys who grow up rich are likely to remain that way. Black boys raised at the top, however, are more likely… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
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Clint Smith (@ClintSmithIII) March 19, 2018****
This @nytimes piece is a gut punch. It includes a data visualization that shows the invisible hand of systemic raci… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
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Baratunde (@baratunde) March 19, 2018****
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The research is clear that race is the predominant form of class in America. If your analysis assumes white and bla… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
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Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) March 19, 2018****
Since we’re talking about the racial wealth gap, this is always worth remembering as well https://t.co/qxq1AJMnW5
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Clint Smith (@ClintSmithIII) March 20, 201821
Feb
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#NeverAgain
Here’s the 2 page, $230,000 Everytown ad running in the New York Times tomorrow, listing phone numbers of members o… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
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Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) February 21, 201806
Feb
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“You’re Muslim And American”
Front page of NYT, one year ago today. https://t.co/SZ6C1vJzQg
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Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) February 04, 201715
Jul
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The President’s Thinking Hours
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Michael D. Shear: Obama After Dark: The Precious Hours Alone
“Are you up?” The emails arrive late, often after 1 a.m., tapped out on a secure BlackBerry from an email address known only to a few. The weary recipients know that once again, the boss has not yet gone to bed. The late-night interruptions from President Obama might be sharply worded questions about memos he has read. Sometimes they are taunts because the recipient’s sports team just lost. Last month it was a 12:30 a.m. email to Benjamin J. Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser, and Denis R. McDonough, the White House chief of staff, telling them he had finished reworking a speechwriter’s draft of presidential remarks for later that morning. Mr. Obama had spent three hours scrawling in longhand on a yellow legal pad an angry condemnation of Donald J. Trump’s response to the attack in Orlando, Fla., and told his aides they could pick up his rewrite at the White House usher’s office when they came in for work. Mr. Obama calls himself a “night guy,” and as president, he has come to consider the long, solitary hours after dark as essential as his time in the Oval Office.
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He works on speeches. He reads the stack of briefing papers delivered at 8 p.m. by the National Security Council staff secretary. He reads 10 letters from Americans chosen each day by his staff. “He is thoroughly predictable in having gone through every piece of paper that he gets,” said Tom Donilon, Mr. Obama’s national security adviser from 2010 to 2013. “You’ll come in in the morning, it will be there: questions, notes, decisions.” One night last June, Cody Keenan, the president’s chief speechwriter, had just returned home from work at 9 p.m. and ordered pizza when he heard from the president: “Can you come back tonight?” Mr. Keenan met the president in the usher’s office on the first floor of the residence, where the two worked until nearly 11 p.m. on the president’s eulogy for nine African-Americans fatally shot during Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. Three months earlier, Mr. Keenan had had to return to the White House when the president summoned him — at midnight — to go over changes to a speech Mr. Obama was to deliver in Selma, Ala., on the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” when protesters were brutally beaten by the police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. “There’s something about the night,” Mr. Keenan said, reflecting on his boss’s use of the time. “It’s smaller. It lets you think.”
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Tara Culp-Ressler: Obamacare Has Reversed A Negative Trend. Researchers Call It ‘Remarkable’
For the first time in a decade, the number of people struggling to pay their medical bills has started to decline, according to a new survey released on Thursday by the Commonwealth Fund. The researchers attributed the historic drop to the number of people gaining insurance under the health care reform law. Between 2012 and 2014 — as Obamacare’s main coverage expansion took effect — the Commonwealth researchers found that the number of people who had issues paying for health treatment dropped from 41 percent to 35 percent. Over the same time period, the people who skipped out on health services because they couldn’t afford them declined from 43 percent to 36 percent
In a press release, the researchers described the declines as “remarkable.” This marks the first time since 2005, when Commonwealth started surveying people on these questions, that the number of Americans struggling to afford medical care hasn’t increased. Commonwealth’s findings, which also documented a drop in the number of Americans going without insurance, track closely with other surveys that have reported declines in the uninsured rate under Obamacare. The number of Americans without health care was reduced by about 25 percent last year, which means that between eight million and eleven million people have gained coverage.
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Thanks to #Obamacare, fewer people are facing financial distress because of medical bills. More from @nytimes: ofa.bo/f2QG
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) January 16, 2015****
Margot Sanger-Katz: Signs of A Decline In Financial Distress Connected To Medical Bills
After rising for a decade, the number of Americans experiencing financial distress from their medical bills has started to decline, a new survey has found. The result provides new evidence that the Affordable Care Act, by providing uninsured people with health insurance, is also improving their financial security, a major goal of the law. The large telephone survey, from the New York-based health research group the Commonwealth Fund, has been asking people about their medical bills every few years for a decade. In each survey through 2012, a higher percentage of Americans said they struggled to pay their medical bills, were paying off medical debt or had been contacted by a collection agency.
The most recent installment of the survey, the first since the health law’s major provisions kicked in, shows a reversal in that trend. The survey also found that fewer people were avoiding doctors’ visits because of concerns about cost. But Commonwealth also found that, over all, even people who had insurance before 2014 were having fewer problems with medical bills than they were before. That change may reflect rules in the health law that require individual insurance plans to cover a minimum set of benefits for every customer.
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Obamacare has reversed a negative trend. Researchers call it 'remarkable' thkpr.gs/3611905 http://t.co/YgFonAulJU
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ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) January 15, 2015Early Signs of Another Win for Obamacare immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2015/01/early-…
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Nancy LeTourneau (@Smartypants60) January 15, 2015****
The New Health Care: Financial Distress Connected to Medical Bills Shows a Decline, the First in Years nyti.ms/156xnI0
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The New York Times (@nytimes) January 15, 2015Of all the clicks you make today, this one is most important: ofa.bo/i2P0 #GetCovered http://t.co/8VKcCuLyxb
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Obamacare (@obamacare) January 15, 2015
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NYT: Justice Dept. Sets Record In Penalties For Fraud
The Justice Department collected a record $24.7 billion in penalties from fraud and other cases in the 2014 fiscal year, the agency said on Wednesday, as fines against banks for financial misconduct soared. Collections from civil and criminal actions, including money collected on behalf of other agencies, was $8 billion in 2013, and $13 billion in 2012. Collections in 2014 were bolstered by multibillion-dollar payouts from JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup to resolve claims they misled investors about the quality of mortgage bonds in the run-up to the financial crisis, and include $11 billion in payments made to federal agencies or states. Payouts in the 2014 fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30, also include hundreds of millions of dollars in fines levied on UBS and Royal Bank of Scotland.
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