<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.congoo.com/css/rss.css" type="text/css" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>US-social-policy News - Congoo</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=12&amp;catid=301</link><description>News Feed for - US-social-policy</description><item><title>In new ad, Pagliuca hits Coakley, Capuano on health care</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96523447&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T02:07:00</pubDate><description>By Eric Moskowitz, Globe Staff On the eve of Thanksgiving, Stephen Pagliuca released the most pointed television ad yet of the Senate race today, calling out rivals Martha Coakley and Michael Capuano </description><source>Boston Globe</source></item><item><title>Crunch Time in the Senate</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96498971&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T01:34:00</pubDate><description>Will conservative and liberal objections to the Senate healthcare bill's provisions regarding women's health doom the legislation?</description><source>The Nation</source></item><item><title>CAIR to Release Report on U.S. Muslim Civil Rights</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96490648&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T01:45:00</pubDate><description>Annual study looks at Islamophobia, watch lists, surveillance of mosques, profiling Sponsored by: WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Thursday, December 3, the Council on American-Islamic </description><source>TickerTech.com</source></item><item><title>Obama stance on abortion unclear</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96522086&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T01:48:00</pubDate><description>J Higgins, Portstewart, Co Derry Padraig O Feinnain (November 5), by a degree of acrobatic reasoning, comes to the conclusion that, because I state Obama's pro-abortion actions make him unfit for the </description><source>Irish News</source></item><item><title>Michaud tells of talk with Obama on Medicare</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96399817&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T01:51:00</pubDate><description>BANGOR, Maine -- Medicare payment rates in Maine are the second-lowest in the nation, reimbursing hospitals and physicians somewhere between 20 percent and 30 percent less, on average, than the cost of </description><source>Individual.com</source></item><item><title>AT&amp;T and White House spar on â??Net neutrality'</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96331942&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T11:29:00</pubDate><description>WASHINGTON ? AT&amp;T doesn't like the idea of new regulations mandating unfettered access to the Internet, and recent comments from the Obama administration that connected the issue to censorship in China </description><source>Houston Chronicle</source></item><item><title>Limbaugh: Government Raises Black Children</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96430380&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T01:11:00</pubDate><description>Black men stepping up to the plate to provide for their families, nationally syndicated radio show host said they would rather let the government do it. Limbaugh said he was citing a article which reports </description><source>Bet.com</source></item><item><title>DJ US Census Fats And Oils Crush: Oct Cottonseed/Other-Nov 25</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96422500&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T23:30:00</pubDate><description>In short tons, except oil in thousand pounds at mills. Cumulative in million short tons, except oil in billion pounds at mills. (a) denotes data withheld to avoid disclosing individual operations. 1/-Includes </description><source>Individual.com</source></item><item><title>Pan American Bank (Los Angeles) Launches Social Media Presence</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96399924&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T14:52:00</pubDate><description>BusinessWire - Pan American Bank (Los Angeles) today announced that it has entered the world of social media and Web 2.0 through the launch of a blog, Facebook page and Twitter account. Pan American Bank's </description><source>Forbes.com</source></item><item><title>Drug firms raise prices ahead of reform</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96291428&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T08:15:00</pubDate><description>Even as drug makers promise to support Washingtonâ??s health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nationâ??s drug costs after the legislation takes effect, the industry has been raising </description><source>MSNBC</source></item><item><title>New Home Sales Up 6.2%, Says HUD</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96503013&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T21:16:00</pubDate><description>Sales of new, single-family homes were at a seasonally adjusted rate of 430,000 in October, according to a joint release by the Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). </description><source>HousingWire.com</source></item><item><title>After a Takeover of Health Care, Can a One-Child Policy Be Far Behind?</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96497454&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T20:25:00</pubDate><description>Make no mistake about it: the health care bill that moved forward to debate in the Senate on Saturday is simply a power play by the government to gain more control over how we live our lives. It could </description><source>American Thinker</source></item><item><title>Schmidt: This Thanksgiving, please pass the praise for President Obama's health </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96496541&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T20:17:00</pubDate><description>This Thanksgiving, my father will open his electric garage door on the ground floor of my parents' split-level home and ride his motorized wheelchair up the ramp in the backyard and into the second-floor </description><source>New York Daily News</source></item><item><title>CORRECTION: Scarborough Research Partners With MMA to Give Brands and Marketers </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96424608&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T19:21:00</pubDate><description>NEW YORK, Nov. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), a global organization leading the way in promoting the development and sustainability of mobile marketing, today announced Scarborough </description><source>Montana's News Station</source></item><item><title>Debate on the Address - Energy and Climate Change, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96335092&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T15:22:00</pubDate><description>LGA Key Messages Councils are ready and can be trusted to take on additional responsibilities. Working with residents and local partners they will deliver the best possible services within their local </description><source>Firstonline</source></item><item><title>New U.S. civil rights chief pulled back into transgender staffer fight in Montgomery</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96309548&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T13:31:00</pubDate><description>Dana Beyer, a doctor and top Trachtenberg aide, says claims she threatened or tried to intimidate opponents of a 2007 transgender rights law are baseless. Beyer helped craft the transgender law and is </description><source>Washington Post</source></item><item><title>Dems open to altering health care bill</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96180426&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T13:02:00</pubDate><description>Senate reform moves ahead STORY HIGHLIGHTS Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois: I'm open to changing bill's public insurance option Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire: 'This is going to be a compromise' Senate </description><source>CNN</source></item><item><title>New baseline of opinion on health care</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96277123&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T06:06:00</pubDate><description>CULPEPER, Va. ? On the day President Clinton went on national television in 1993 to prescribe his remedy for the nation's ailing health care system, emergency room director Michael Bost was too busy treating </description><source>USA Today</source></item><item><title>24 HOURS IN THE ER: Health care challenges highlighted</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96187613&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T06:06:00</pubDate><description>CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.  7:30 a.m. Monday PHOTOS: Cross-section of patients and staff reveals complexity IN THEIR OWN WORDS: ER chief O'Connor: 'We treat anyone and everyone' Dr. Robert O'Connor had taken </description><source>USA Today</source></item><item><title>VIDEO: Dispatches from the front lines of health care</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96154574&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T06:06:00</pubDate><description>USA TODAY chronicles 24 hours at the University of Virginia Medical Center emergency room and the health issues that confront the ER doctors, nurses and patients. These four videos, 'Quality of Care,' </description><source>USA Today</source></item><item><title>RBC Capital Markets Corp reiterates Royal Host REIT at 'underperform'</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96394013&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T15:43:00</pubDate><description>RBC Capital Markets analyst Neil Downey maintained his investment opinion of Royal Host Real Estate Investment Trust at "underperform," with a price target of C$2.  Industries: North America Real Estate </description><source>SNL Securities</source></item><item><title>Historic Health Care Bill Clears Senate Hurdle</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96064582&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T12:36:00</pubDate><description>WASHINGTON -- A bruising debate on health care awaits the Senate after Thanksgiving now that the historic legislation has cleared a key hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing </description><source>WSBTV</source></item><item><title>Congress must fix Medicare</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96142413&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-21T05:10:00</pubDate><description>Regarding the Nov. 15 editorial 'A $300 billion deception': Fixing the Medicare physician payment problem is essential to the stability of Medicare and the success of health-care reform. If Congress fails </description><source>Washington Post</source></item><item><title>Health care's vital signs</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96032093&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-21T05:24:00</pubDate><description>To an extent, the question reflects an America-in-decline-ism that becomes fashionable from time to time, especially when the U.S. economy is dragging. The United States always has turned out to be more </description><source>Washington Post</source></item><item><title>Church ripped for feeding homeless</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96027045&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-21T03:36:00</pubDate><description>Yes, I would like to receive occasional CNN member updates about new features and special offers. CNN will use the information you submit in a manner consistent with our Privacy Policy. 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