Already abandoned by the Obama Administration, CLASS has no champion on Capitol Hill and is likely to fall victim to implacable Republican opposition and a lack of Democratic support.
Only a limited number meet Food and Drug Administration standards for "Class 1" protection, in which 90% of UV-A radiation is blocked and 99% of UV-B radiation is blocked.
Anne, who remains optimistic despite her many years on Capitol Hill, suggested some relatively small steps to build on what policymakers learned from CLASS. For instance, the Administration still has some modest funding available for a public information campaign to encourage consumers to think about their long-term care needs.
Some privately admit that the administration--despite its pro-middle class rhetoric--has adopted an economic program that makes Ronald Reagan seem like the vox populi.
Reaching further back, the Central Europeans who belonged to the Habsburg empire have tapped into a tradition of education, administration and commerce, backed by a middle-class, that looked west.
That's not to talk about any previous administration, except for quite some time the middle class has thought that Washington was looking out for Washington and the big special interests, and not looking out for them.
Esther Peterson, the top-ranking woman in the Kennedy administration, asked an auditorium full of working-class high school girls in Los Angeles how many expected to have a "home and kids and a family, " and the room was full of waving hands.
What we have not seen is any specificity from the Republicans or any indication from the leadership that they're going to accept the basic principle that wealthier Americans are going to pay higher rates, rates that were in place under the Clinton administration when this economy grew rapidly, the middle class saw its incomes rise and the wealthy did very well, to boot.
Is the Obama administration going to backtrack on support for a working middle-class family buying houses?
Coming from the coast himself, he campaigned persuasively against centralised administration (from highland Quito), and the traditional political class.
The Obama administration's sympathies are with the knuckleheads who are disrupting class, not with the kids who are trying to get an education.
If the Food and Drug Administration OKs the drug, it will be only the second new class of antibiotic approved in 35 years.
To the delight of his business supporters, the administration has passed far-reaching reforms of the bankruptcy system and of class-action lawsuits.
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Burman, a Treasury tax official during the Clinton administration, cautioned the Obama administration against using the stimulus as a pretext to make either middle-class tax cuts or its proposed new refundable tax credits permanent.
Moreover, even if the organizers of Rolling Jubilee were willing to bet the tax status of their own organization on the prospect of kinder, gentler tax administration, it is not a good idea to experiment with unsophisticated middle class debtors.
The Obama Administration, meanwhile, released a series of proposals to make life easier for the middle class.
He said administration councillors would now have to "face their communities" and tell them that school class sizes would increase, road potholes would get worse and vulnerable people would be "thrown on the scrap heap".
The Obama administration has based medium and long-term strategy for job growth on expansion of the middle class, by advancing policies designed to widen opportunities and toughen workplace protections for employees.
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Washington (CNN) -- An entire class of statin drugs will get new labels that alert the public to safety concerns, the Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday.
The class-action suit accused Zirkle Fruit Company of systematically ignoring blatantly forged work documents, even after the Social Security Administration told the company thousands of its employees' numbers were fraudulent.
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