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The Joy of Facts

Next Level Blog

He found that there are four basic models: private insurance, government run health care, public insurance, and out of pocket. leads the world in health expenditures as a percentage of GDP at 16.5%. Posted by: Pisac | November 01, 2010 at 12:21 PM Verify your Comment Previewing your Comment Posted by: | This is only a preview.

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The Hidden Costs of Cash

Harvard Business Review

For businesses, paper money has to be managed: it must be stored, guarded, and accounted for. About 12% of the federal budget in 2012 supported programs that provide aid (other than health insurance or Social Security benefits) to poor families. Such government safety net programs kept some 25 million people out of poverty in 2010.

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The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable

Harvard Business Review

Umair Haque Blogs Umair Haque On: Global business , Competition , Economy The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable 4:33 PM Monday November 29, 2010 | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print Once upon a time, there was a country where bankers disappeared. All rights reserved.

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What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class

Harvard Business Review

Class migrants (white-collar professionals born to blue-collar families) report that “professional people were generally suspect” and that managers are college kids “who don’t know s**t about how to do anything but are full of ideas about how I have to do my job,” said Alfred Lubrano in Limbo.

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