10-Nov-2012 21:52 How

With food safety bill, U.S. government will spend nearly $1 million per person to prevent food-borne illness deaths :: (NaturalNews) The recently-passed Food Safety Modernization Act, which was passed in order to prevent food-borne illness deaths in the USA, will cost $1.4 billion over the first five years. But nobody thinks about the economics of the issue. How many people are we going to save by spending this $1.4 billion, even assuming it works?To answer that question, let's look at the food illness fatality figures offered by the CDC:• Out of the 5,000 food-borne illness deaths each year in the United States, only 1,809 are "attributable to foodborne transmission" according to the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no5/mead.htm#Table%203).• E.coli, which is often quoted in the big scare stories about food safety, only kills 78 people a year through food-borne transmission (52 plus 26, fro...
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How Sandy hit economy :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/n3rTR8vSEIs/

How Much Inequality Is Needed to Support a Strong Economy? :: There's plenty of self-interest on display in the debate on inequality, but behavioral and experimental economic studies and other inquiries into the topic show that there's more to the issue than meets the eye.read more (Source: Psychology Today Work Center)
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How Redistricting Gave Losing Republicans A Breath Of Life :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>After the second Republican defeat at the hands of President Barack Obama, gloating Democrats and disappointed Republicans alike have pinned the blame for Mitt Romney's loss on one culprit alone: the GOP itself, arguing that its pointed focus on social issues and indifferent, even hostile, attitude toward minority voters have essentially made it a political anachronism.</p><p>But you wouldn't know that by looking at the nation's state legislatures.</p></div></div></div>
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How mobile and IT mismanagement failed Mitt Romney :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/MyjHVMm0xsc/story01.htm

Quiz: How will you fare? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/67GkWlozlSI/index.html

How the NYT created its "512 Paths to the White House" data tool :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/Vp2xUEHuiLE/story01.htm

AUDIO: How new Lord Mayor will help the City :: The 685th lord mayor of London takes up his post today and his brief is to promote and support the people and businesses of the City of London.
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How did the PPI bill ever get so big? :: How did the PPI mis-selling bill get so big?
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Beating the recruitment machines :: How to land a job in the era of the online application
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