Working Together to Save Our Economy — and Get Reelected

Some of us in Congress are proposing a bipartisan commission with teeth to force Congress and the president to make tough choices on spending reform.spending reform, pork spending, bipartisan commission, congress

What\u27s Next?

This is the way I see the progression of recent American history. Unfortunately, the South was always a bastion of fee-for-service care; it still largely is. Managed care has largely failed us because it was largely managing costs, not care, in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Providers talk about value-based care, and “better” is better, but “better” is very hard to define. This field is very trendy right now. I’m a big advocate for pay-for-performance, but you have to be able to measure performance. So, what’s next? The bottom line is that “better” is still way too expensive. Health costs are a crushing burden on both families and our nation. With our employer-sponsored benefit system, we are used to seeing only one quarter of the health care price tags on our pay stubs. We ignore the employer portion, which is largely taken out of our foregone cash wage increases, and we wonder why wages have been sagging in America for forty years. The healthcare sector is taking our cash wage increases from us, and that is an astonishing insight

A Comparative Framing Analysis of Embedded and Behind-the-Lines Reporting on the 2003 Iraq War

Although a contested position, we believe that reporters and editors frame the news in a way that reflects their personal feelings and newsroom culture (Kuypers, 1997, 2002, 2005; Cooper, in press). Audiences usually receive their political news from only a few press sources; rarely do they read the original statements of those being reported upon

The President and the Press: The Framing of George W. Bush’s Speech to the United Nations

In this essay, we provide a brief overview of how frames work, discuss the relationship of frames to the news media, and perform a qualitatively based, comparative framing analysis of President Bush’s speech to the United Nations and the mainstream American press response that followed. Findings suggest that by the end of formal military operations in Afghanistan, the press was increasingly framing its reports in such a way that President Bush’s public statements were inaccurately transmitted to the public at large. Three key findings are advanced: one, the press depicted the Bush administration as an enemy of civil liberties; two, hard news stories echoed the positions generated by editorials and opinion essays; three, as early as eight weeks after 9/11, the press was actively contesting the meaning of the War on Terror. Also discussed is the nature of the War on Terror as a master frame

Detection of rapid orbital expansion of Saturn’s moon Titan

The Saturn satellite system is a complex dynamical system with several gravitational interactions happening between the satellites, the rings and the central body, such as resonances, librations and tides. These intricate dynamics carry information on the formation and evolution of the Saturn and Solar systems

George W. Bush, the American Press, and the Initial Framing of the War on Terror after 9/11

President George W. Bush\u27s speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations on November I 0, 200 I, marks an important moment in the history of the War on Terror. 1 It followed closely upon the joint U.S.-Northern Alliance military capture of Mazari Sarif, Afghanistan, which significantly disrupted the Taliban\u27s operations and arguably marked the official beginning of America\u27s War on Terror. As President Bush stated, The time for sympathy has now passed; the time for action has now arrived. 2 In some ways, the speech offered nothing new. It reiterated words and ideas that the president frequently used to label elements of the situation following the 9/11 attacks

‘If I feel like this, how does the child feel?’ Child protection workers, supervision, management and organisational responses to parental violence

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Social Work Practice, on 14 September 2015, available online at:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2015.1073145 © 2015 GAPS.This study analysed workers’ experiences of supervision following interactions with hostile and intimidating parents. This analysis examined management and organisational responses to worker stress, and assessed the adequacy of support that workers received. An online survey was designed to collect data on workers’ experiences and free text responses were qualitatively analysed for references to the supervision they received in response to working with parents. 590 participants responded to the survey. 402 were qualified social workers, and 423 worked in child protection. Participants had experienced a range of violent behaviour from parents. The overwhelming theme in responses was the lack of support and supervision workers received, often in stressful and frightening circumstances. Approximately one quarter of participants only used organisational procedures, guidelines or protocols on dealing with hostile parents. Workers reported that mismanaged parental hostility affected their practice and the quality of protection that children received. The violence experienced had a significant negative impact on their personal and professional lives. Organisational responses in the form of supervision and education were often inadequate and resulted in children receiving reduced quality of protection. Recommendations for policy and practice change are discussed, with the aim of caring for workers and the children they protectPeer reviewedFinal Accepted Versio