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What's a 'tax expenditure'? We decode a controversial budget term
Apr 26, 2013
Tax breaks like the home mortgage deduction confer financial benefits, and some argue they're part of the government safety net.
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What does 'welfare' mean to you?
Apr 24, 2013
'Welfare' used to simply mean 'well-being'. These days it often has negative connotations and multiple meanings.
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What we mean by 'entitlement'? Well, that depends...
Apr 22, 2013
'Entitlement' has almost contradictory meanings in casual conversation - and also, depending on your views, in political discourse about the social safety net
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How did the social safety net get its name?
Apr 2, 2013
How did that phrase -- the safety net-- become a household term for social programs in the first place?
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Flying with a net, literal and figurative
Mar 26, 2013
Our reporter learns to fly on a trapeze -- and gets a crash course in safety nets, both real and metaphoric.
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Show me your (real and metaphoric) safety net
Mar 26, 2013
One woman's definition of a safety net: Something that lets you take risks, from going to school to flying from a trapeze.
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Ryan says private sector key to ending high poverty
Oct 24, 2012
VP candidate says businesses can grow jobs and private donations can displace the safety net.
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