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AP – Just before the earliest stages of the recession, there was a steep decline in the population growth of children less than a year old, newly released census figures show. Government data suggests that pregnancy began to decline months before the FICRY was even set in full swing. The numbers hint at a strange [...]

(Reuters) – Medical bills are involved in more than 60 percent of U.S. personal bankruptcies, an increase of 50 percent in just six years, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.More than 75 percent of these bankrupt families had health insurance but still were overwhelmed by their medical debts, the team at Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical [...]

European news sources are now reporting that, as a result of the global recession, even fewer Brits will be visiting the dentist.
The global recession, as well as a recent hike in prices from the National Health Service, are further deteriorating the state of British teeth and gums.
British dental care took a turn for the worse [...]

(AP) From Atlanta, Ga., listen to Marian Chamberlain, 65, jobless, and no longer eligible for unemployment: “I will never be able to retire.” From Shakopee, Minn., listen to Bruce Paul, 56, a vintage car mechanic laid off in January and unemployed for the first time since Richard Nixon was president. Today he and his wife [...]

Is the American higher education model going to suffer the same plight as Wall Street and Detroit?  Mark C. Taylor, chairman of the religion department at Columbia University, thinks so. However, Professor Taylor gladly reveals his six step bailout plan. Mark C. Taylor writes for the New York Times, “End the University as We Know It”
“GRADUATE [...]