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The history of the welfare state is the history of public enterprise pushing out private organization. The impact was largely unintentional, but natural and inevitable. Higher taxes left individuals with less money to give; government’s assumption of responsibility for providing welfare shriveled the perceived duty of individuals to respond to their neighbors’ needs; and the availability of public programs gave recipients an alternative to private assistance, one which did not challenge recipients to reform their destructive behavior.

Doug Bandow

added by Normando
11 months ago

There really have been transformational advances in remote sensing technology for methane over the last decade and the last three to four years, that reporting program doesn’t require operators to go out and fly airplanes. It’s largely based on models and standard emissions factors.

Riley Duren

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Quite a large percentage of the diversity that we found were coastal species and not the the native pelagic open ocean species that we were largely expecting to find.

Courtesy Linsey Haram/Smithsonian Institution Haram

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There will certainly will be damage up along the coastal areas where the crossing occurred, but largely the populated areas did escape the brunt of the eye as it crossed the coast.

Peter Sutton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Most of the attacks happen in the water, but because hippos raid crops on farms, there are also attacks on people trying to protect their crops. There are some tourists, but largely the attacks are happening to local residents.

Rebecca Lewison

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One striking thing is that the fishing community – the commercial fleet and recreational fishing groups – have largely supported the closure of the salmon season, that has been apparent in the public comments at the council and elsewhere. They argue that they should not be fishing when the stocks have declined to this level.

Michael Milstein

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It has a better foundation than before the [2008] financial crisis. That’s largely due to the reforms put in place.

Shalanda Young

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The company’s deposits with SVB are largely uninsured, at this time, the company does not know to what extent the company will be able to recover its cash on deposit at SVB.

New York

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The economy has largely moved on from the mini budget, but the hangover for the UK housing market is more prolonged. We’re still seeing the effects of higher mortgage rates in the last three months of last year.

Tom Bill

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The input material is really largely representative of medical knowledge and the type of multiple-choice questions which AI is most likely to be successful with.

Alex Mechaber

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Prigozhin is trying to advance his own interests in Ukraine, and Wagner is making military decisions based largely on what will generate positive publicity for Prigozhin.

Strategic Communications John Kirby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The failure of the committee to offer any new and direct evidence of criminal conduct was telling, the fact is that the [January] 6 Committee failed to change many minds largely because of what was on display in the final public meeting. It was the same highly scripted, one-sided account repeated mantra-like for months.

Jonathan Turley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Democrats were able to defy historical trends in the midterms and over-perform largely because the Republican nominated people who were way outside the mainstream, it turns out that independent voters and a significant number of Republican voters simply will not vote for candidates who oppose abortion in all instances and who deny the results of the 2020 election. If the Republicans want to course correct, they need to dial back the crazy.

Lis Smith

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

While it's more centrist than the nation at large, increasingly there is a working-class Black vote, a Black male vote (reflecting a growing gender-gap) and a Black evangelical vote.These subsets are increasingly acting and voting the way that their white counterparts do, when combined with the centrism of Blacks, the monolith of 90% of Blacks voting the same way that we saw in 2008 is over. In fact, every year since then the vote has split more and more. This change is largely a function of the disdain that Blacks have for the progressive agenda.

Horace Cooper

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I remember Republicans, who are critical of absentee voting, so, it just seems these criticism are largely in bad faith. He has every right vote in person … I'm proud that as president, no matter how hectic his schedule is, he manages to find the time to participate as a citizen.

Ritchie Torres

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This largely can be handled with just some extra paperwork and security briefings.

Brad Moss

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Loss befalls us all ; loss is half the human story, mostly, we experience moments of joy and transcendence a couple of seconds after they have already begun to fade, and our knowledge of such exalted states consists largely of their existence being held in memory. Adult human beings live with the certainty of grief, which deepens us and opens us to other people, who have been there, too.

Emma Straub

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The benefits of cutting [ taxes ] would largely flow to the people who pay more tax, which are generally people with more money.

Jonathan Marshall

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Valuations have largely been correcting themselves from the highs of 2021.

Rachel Gerring

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We've helped, I've helped, get this country through a pandemic and help save another country from barbarism. And frankly, that's enough to be going on with. Mission largely accomplished, i want to thank everybody here and hasta la vista, baby.

Prime MinisterSince Johnson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was very, very minimally planned in advance and was largely spur of the moment. Violet stayed home because Jennifer Lopez’s extremely loyal to Jennifer Lopez mom.

Jennifer Lopez

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Now stock market traders can go to sleep as nothing upside or downside in shares prices will happen till 2:30 pm today. Prices will remain in stagnant position largely between 10 am-2 pm

Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheispatel
1 year ago

They don't reflect the views of law-abiding gun owners. That's the problem, they reflect a viewpoint that's largely held in urban corridors where gun ownership is taboo… And so I think what we have really found in this whole scenario is the media does a terrible job actually covering it, because their worldview with respect to gun ownership is not ‘in the mainstream.’.

Byron Donalds

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Unfortunately, the available evidence is largely inconclusive, due to the small number of studies and the variation in cannabinoid products among these studies, large, placebo-controlled trials in hundreds of patients who are all taking the same exact product at the same doses are needed to understand the benefits and risks of cannabis for chronic pain.

Jodi Gilman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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