Nacrt-zakonot za zdravstvena zaštita odobren od Sentatot, čeka potpis od pretsedatelot by Milota Sidorova

Kako što se očekuvaše, amerikanskiot Senat gi prifati tehničkite promeni vo reformata za nacrt-zakonot za zdravstvena zaštita i denes gi isprati nazad vo Kukjata na pretstavnicite. Dokolku Kukjata na pretstavnicite se soglasi, nacrt-zakonot kje odi direktno kaj pretsedatelot Barak Obama, koj vekje go potpiša nacrt-zaknot kako zakon. Kolku povekje raspravi predizvika pominuvanjeto na reformata pred suštinskiot vikend, se čini deka tolku pomalku problemi predizivikuva denovive. Kukjata na pretstavnicite nagolemo se očekuva deka kje go odobri i deka kje go isprati do pretsedatelot. Politički analitičar reče deka toa e! krvava pobeda za pretsedatelot što ja gubi svojata popularnost, za mestata vo Kongresot i megjunarodniot imidz. Opozicionite Republikanci, sepak, ne se otkažaa od borbata – nivnata odmazda kje se sluči na noemvriskite regionalni izbori. Izglasuvanjeto na problematičnata reforma za zdravstvena zaštita beše gnasno i kontroverzno – osven bezobraznite reklami i kampanji, pristapot do aktuelnata verzija na reformata beše težok. Nacrt-zakonot beše promenet tolku mnogu pati što kritikata reče deka nemal nikakva vrska so originalnata ideja. Najgolemata rabota so nacrt-zakonot beše beše opštoto pokrivanje so osiguruvanje za sekoj Amerikanec. Toa bi bilo nešto novo za aktuelniot zdravstven sistem na plakjanje i gotovina. Osiguruvanjeto bi bilo zadolžitelno za sekoj gragjanin, vklučuvajkji 32 milioni neosigurani i siromašni Amerikanci. Konečnite promeni odobreni vo Sentatot v! klučuvaa zgolemuvanje na pristapnosta na osiguruvanjeto n! a povekj e državi i siromašni gragjani i otkažano e izzemanjeto na Nebraska da ne gi donira trošocite za proširuvanje na „Medikejd“, da se zatvori jazot vo pokrivanjeto na prepišuvanjeto na lekarstvata na postari pacienti i da se odloži danokot za planot za osiguruvanje koj čini mnogu skapo. Celata reforma treba da čini okolu 2.5 trilioni.

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Jobless Claims Fell Last Week by Magdalena Rosova

Layoffs in United States are decreasing and hiring is recovering. In consequence, unemployment rates fell more than expected. Economists said it was an encouraging sign that the economy was closer to generate job gains. Since September 2008, when the financial crisis was the most intensive, the unemployment rates finally smoothed. An economist Zach Pandl believes that a hiring in on its way to a recovery. The Labor Department reported on Thursday that number of first-time claimers of jobless benefits dropped by 14,000 to 442,000. That is less than economists estimated. Most of the drop was caused by a change in the calculations of the Labor Department. Every year th! e department revises its data. Seasonal adjustment should filter out expected changes in employment, for example layoff of temporary workers after the winter holidays, and provide more accurate data. Without seasonal adjustment, the first-time claims for jobless benefits fell by 30,00 to 405,557. The positive report caused that the Dow Jones industrial average rose more than 119 points. In January and February the initial claims for unemployment benefits increased, but the fall in the past three weeks wiped out most of the growth in the first two months of 2010. According to majority of economists, when initial clams fall below 425,000 it means that the economy is able to consistently create jobs. But Carl Riccadonna, economist at Deutsche Bank, believes that economy will consistently create jobs in April. Analysts expect 150,000 new jobs to be created in March. Since the recession began in 2008, it would be the second time the economy has gained jobs.

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Healthcare bill approved by the Senate, waiting to be signed by President by Milota Sidorova

As expected the U.S. Senate approved technical changes in healthcare reform bill and send it back to the House of Representatives today. If House of Representatives agrees the bill it will go directly to President Barack Obama who already signed the bill as law. The more fights did the reform passage caused before crucial weekend, the less problems it seems to make these days. House of Representatives is greatly expected to approve and send it to President.Political analyst said it was bloody victory for a president loosing his popularity, seats in the Congress and international image. Opposition Republicans however, didn't drop off the fight – their revenge would com! e in November regional elections.The passage of troubled healthcare reform was dirty and controversial – except of low minded adverts and campaigns, the access to the current version of the reform was of difficulties. The bill was changed so many times that critics said it had nothing with the original idea.The major issue of the bill was the general insurance coverage for every American. That would be something new to the current pay and cash health system. The insurance would be obligatory for every citizen, including 32 million of uninsured and poor Americans.The final changes approved in the Senate included extending of insurance availability to more states and poor citizens and cancelled Nebraska exemption from not donating Medicaid expansion costs, close a gap in prescription drug coverage to older patients and delay a tax on high-cost insurance plan. The whole reform should cost about $2.5 trillion healthcare system.

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Saving money for a rainy day? by Barbora Misakova

In the times of the biggest world crisis, money must be saved, no matter what. So United States decided to reduce state prison numbers just to curtail corrections costs. While in 23 states such as Indiana or Pennsylvania increased the number of prisoners in the last year, there is still more states (exactly 27) that reduced their prison populations. California with a drop of 4,257 is on the top of the list. Michigan, New York, Maryland, Texas and Mississippi are on the list as well. The biggest drop in last year touched Rhode Island, where 9.2 percent of prison population was released. Law enables prisoners to get out early if they commit to rehabilitation programs such as ! job training and substance abuse treatment. Californian new law in try to ease prison overcrowding enabled inmates to reduce their sentences under good conduct. Michigan on the other side released those inmates who serve more than their minimum sentence. The law of more states also tries to prevent parolees to re-entry the prison. California and Michigan together reduced their prison population by more than 7,500 last year, what is the first nationwide decline since 1972. Even though the overall drop represents just 0.4 percent, the fact is there are more than 7,000 released convicts. Adam Gelb, director of the Pew Center’s Public Safety Performance Project said: “There’s now a realization on both sides of the aisle that there are research-based strategies to protect public safety and hold offenders accountable without sinking ever more public dollars into prisons.” But how will it be actually done, he didn’t say.

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US Army updating its training system by Zuzana Zelenakova

The US army is about to change its training regimen in order to prepare soldier better for real life battles. That means working more on their abs, sprints and fistfight and less with bayonets. It is the first major change in the US training system since women and men began to train together in 1980. The change is coming after experiences from Iraq and Afghanistan. “We don’t run five miles in combat, but you run across the street every day,” exclaims Frank Palkoska, the head of the Army’s Fitness School in Fort Jackson. “I’m not training long-distance runners. I’m training warriors.” As soldiers need to be mobile in every sit! uation, under load or without it, their basic training will focus on gaining strength, agility and might remind more of classic workout you can seen in a gym. This will be at the expense of long distance runs and bayonet drills. “They have to understand hand-to-hand combat, to use something other than their weapon, a piece of wood, a knife, anything they can pick up,” according to 1st Sgt. Michael Todd, a veteran who served in Iraq as well as Afghanistan. Also, one of the aims is to educate soldiers, who come from “more obese and sedentary generation” in a healthier lifestyle. As they did not have that much physical education at school as older generation heir core body and bone strength is most probably a bit neglected. “We just have to take the soldier who’s used to sitting on the couch playing video games and get them out there to do it,” shares Capt. Kenny Fleming. The new plan is scheduled to be introduced in the course of this! month at four US Army basic combat training sites: Fort Benni! ng, Geor gia; Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri;, Fort Sill, Oklahoma and Fort Knox, Kentucky.

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Only 10 questions ... by Barbora Misakova

The census and the information it brings are too important to be ignored or done badly. US census 2010 will have a brand new shape. The 10-question form is one of the shortest in the history of the census and what is more, the form will be sent by e-mail. More than 120 million U.S. forms begin arriving in mailboxes around the USA. US citizens will have to fill in just basic information about themselves and the other persons living with them and send it back. Information such as person’s name, address, phone number, age, race and ethnicity, gender, living arrangements and home ownership will be strictly confidential and the filling the form will take less than 10 minut! es. The Census Bureau is for the first time mailing out also bilingual census forms which are available in Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and Russian. There are also assistance guides available in 59 languages. The reason why the US census will be done in this way lies in financial sphere again: the Census Bureau wasted millions of dollars in paying temporary employees who didn’t do the work or overbilled for travel. This time only those houses with no filled forms will be visited. In 2000 census 72 percent of U. S. households returned their forms. If everyone who receives a census form mails it back, the government would save an estimated $1.5 billion in follow-up visits. Even though there will be none strange man asking you personal questions, there still exists apathy toward surveys, residents displaced by a high number of foreclosures and immigrants who are distrustful of government and its workers.

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Half a billion dollars will try to make the pain go away by Zivka Deleva

They say money can’t buy you health, but definitely can make you feel better! Or maybe the merit that you participated in something generous like saving lives on Ground Zero should be bigger than any sum you can get! About ten thousand people who helped in the dust cleaning after the terroristic attacks are probably going to split up to $657.5 million, as an indemnity for their participation and the health problems they have got since 2001. Workers and rescuers on ground zero are trying to come to the justice, but till yesterday, they didn’t have any clear answer to their demands. They have a lot of health consequences accordingly to the dust that they breathed! in the ruins of the World Trade Center. A judge is going to give the last word today. "We are gratified that these heroic men and women who performed their duties without consideration of the health implications will finally receive just compensation for their pain and suffering, lost wages, medical and other expenses, as the U.S. Congress intended when it appropriated this money" - said Marc Bern, a senior partner with the law firm Worby, Groner, Edelman & Napoli, Bern LLP, which negotiated the deal. New Your Mayor Michael Bloomberg as well expressed his opinion that this settlement is fair enough. If the agreement happens, a lot of cases that were supposed to start this May, are going to be cancelled. Still those workers who want to be part of this settlement, will have to prove that they have been on the 16-acre in lower Manhattan and that they really have health problems related to the debris. It is fact that lots of fire workers and rescuers didn’t have adequa! te saving equipment. Problems like asthma, other types of ail! ments, l ung problems, even cancer are very common situations for most of the 10.000 rescuers. The biggest sum than one man could get, would be more than $1 million, if the injuries are very big.

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Pace of foreclosures slowing down in the US by Zuzana Zelenakova

According to RealtyTrac Inc., the amount of foreclosures in February has risen by 6 percent, which is the smallest increase in four years. Compared to the previous month, it was 2 percent drop to 308,524. The recent development can be attributed to the Obama administration $75 billion rescue plan that has enabled banks to help troubled borrowers. "One of the reasons we are not more optimistic is because we are continuing to see homeowners who are delinquent on their mortgages," RealtyTrac Senior Vice President Rick Sharga said. "The lenders are taking a longer time to evaluate those loans to see if they qualify for the loan modification program that the Obama administrat! ion is pushing -- but ultimately what we think we are going to see is really a delaying of the inevitable." According to Rick Sharga, people from California are among the most endangered as there is lot of those who have difficulties to keep up with their payments or are owing more than is actual worth of their homes. California is number four among the US states when it comes to the amount of foreclosures. It is preceded by Nevada, Florida and Arizona. In February, one in 195 households has become an issue to the foreclosure. "It's premature to declare victory just yet," commented Rick Sharga on the data from the RealtyTrac report. He did, however, added that, "If this is the beginning of a slowdown in growth rates, that would be a good thing." Last year, more than 2.8 million households were threatened by foreclosure and according to the report the number is likely to rise to more than 3 million this year. Nevada, which ranked the highest in number of foreclosures has e! xperienced 7 percent drop from January and more than 30 percen! t from t he previous year.

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Sea lions slowly returning to San Francisco by Zuzana Zelenakova

At the end of 2009 San Francisco began to lose one of its main attractions, a mascot we might say, sea lions. The famous colony of California sea lions vanishing from San Francisco has been a riddle to the experts. Later, the animals were spotted 500 miles north near the Oregon coast and scientists concluded the reason for their disappearance was a search for food during the winter. Still, they migrated in unusually high numbers. "My gut feeling is it has something to do with the (ocean warming) El Nino conditions off California, which is driving prey and sea lions up north," said Kim Raum-Suryan, a biologist at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport. Pier 39, a mar! ketplace and arcade with a view of Alcatraz, has been a home to the sea lion colony for past thirty years, although no one knows why they chose this particular place. Growing in numbers rapidly until they reached about 1,700 animals they have always been most popular with tourists. Tourists find them cute and funny, however extremely smelly at the same time. "People are taking photos of the dock because it is so atypical," said public relations director from Pier 39 Sue Muzzin. "You don't realize how much you miss them 'til they're gone." So, sea lions moved from Pier 39 to Sea Lion Caves in Oregon, however, the change is only temporary as it seems. In recent weeks, numbers of sea lion in San Francisco Bay have climbed again. "They folded up their chaise lounges and put away their umbrella drinks," says Steve Saubert of Sea Lion Caves in Oregon. "They have decided that maybe vacation's over." And with the upcoming travel season in sight Sue Muzzin from Pier 39 hopes it is ! true as she would not like the visitors to be disappointed. !

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