But health care absorbs almost a fifth of government spending, and it grew faster during the past decade than any other public service.

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And some are afraid the trend will continue if the industry doesn't get back to the more conservative underwriting requirements it got away from during a nearly three-decade period that lacked any real debilitating storms before Hurricane Andrew in 1992.

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Today, even though Native Americans are still the poorest of the poor, a recent study shows that we have increased our population rate and our per-capita income more than any other ethnic group in the country during the past decade.

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With regards to popular migration Laffer and Moore found the nine states that do not levy any individual income tax saw their populations expand by an average rate of 13.9 percent during the most recent decade (2001-10).

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