President Barack Obama's budget proposal Monday will offer several measures to trim the federal deficit in the next 10 years. But it would leave largely unchanged the biggest drivers of future government spending: the Medicare, Medicaid and ...
Before his death, Lucian Freud (1922-2011) had been planning a pair of exhibitions. In response, the whole of the National Portrait Gallery's ground floor has been given over to "Lucian Freud Portraits," while at Blain/Southern gallery, ...
By Ajit Mohan It took only a few sessions into the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne for the daggers to be drawn. By the end of the fourth Test in Adelaide a couple of weeks ago, the entire cricketing fraternity in India was baying for blood, ...
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn will propose making kindergarten mandatory for all 5-year-olds and will pitch a new program to provide affordable child care for middle-class families during her State of the City address Thursday.
Earlier this month, we noted that financial scams against the elderly are proliferating. If you know, or care for, an older adult, here are some warning signs that they may be victims, courtesy of the National Council on Aging:
The cost of care for "duals"—chiefly, elderly and disabled Americans who are eligible for both the Medicare and Medicaid programs—represents one of the biggest health-care challenges facing the country.
In an item yesterday on the link between decline of marriage and the decline in male wages, we observed: "The supply of labor has increased enormously over the past 40 to 50 years as more women have entered the workforce. That wages would ...
I'd like to preface this recap by saying that I think this season is really boring. There's more down time, they don't do as much, and we're all just waiting for the blow-up between Mike and Snooki.
What I find most interesting and most hopeful in the Facebook IPO is Mark Zuckerberg's letter to potential investors. It's something that makes me hopeful as a Facebook user—hopeful that the company will not adopt antisocial monetizations ...
Prison systems in the U.S. have an aging problem, one that has nothing to do with steel bars and cement walls. The fastest-growing population in federal and state prisons are those 55 and older, a trend that is forcing cash-strapped local ...
It's often said that the main method of paying health-care providers—with a fee for each service—results in increased and wasteful spending. Such a system, its critics say, rewards providers just for doing more procedures, rather than for ...