The likely outcome of the next five years of budget haggling is a collection of backdoor tax hikes, phaseouts, surcharges and code interactions that haul in revenue while leaving the published rate schedule unchanged.

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In 2007, a study was published that tracked the rate of antidepressant prescriptions and suicides in the U.S. and Netherlands, in people under 19.

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According to the Labor Department's recently published figures, the unemployment rate for government workers actually dropped from 1.9% to 1.7% between April 2007 and April 2008.

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