Quinn’s Medicaid bill makes nearly $1.4B in cuts, Associated Press, May 21, 2012, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “Illinois moved closer to drastic Medicaid cuts Monday with proposed legislation that could excise nearly $1.4 billion from the state’s program by shrinking benefits, such as regular adult dental care, and cutting payments to most hospitals and nursing homes. The measure, backed by Gov. Pat Quinn, falls short of the $2.7 billion in cuts that Quinn originally said would be needed to prevent the health care program for the poor and disabled from collapsing…”
Day: May 22, 2012
Income Inequality – New York City
More earners at extremes in New York than in U.S., By Patrick McGeehan, May 20, 2012, New York Times: “The wealthiest 1 percent of New York City residents took in nearly one-third of the personal income in the city in 2009 – almost double the comparable proportion nationwide, a new study shows. In a report scheduled to be released on Monday, the city comptroller’s office found that large percentages of New Yorkers earned high incomes and low incomes, leaving a smaller middle class than in the nation as a whole…”