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Number of uninsured young people climbing

Sara Collins PhD of the New York-based Commonwealth Fund issued a new report indicating that 30% of people between 19-29 have no health insurance, compared with 12% of children. The number of uninsured young people jumped 3% from 2005 to 2006, to 13.7 million. The statistics were particularly striking for individual communities, with 36% of black young Americans lacking insurance and 53% of Latinos.

Read more in a report from Reuters.

Wednesday, February 8, 2012
"It is necessary to recover some basic aspects of finances, such as the primacy of labor over capital, of human relationships over purely financial transactions, and of ethics over the sole criterion of efficiency," Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican's apostolic nuncio to the United Nations.

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