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Gazette Article on Census 2010 Event Hosted by Congresswoman Edwards

Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010
Groups discuss census outreach strategy
Local participation encouraged to get federal funding

by Zoe Tillman | Staff Writer

Speaking just a few blocks away from Census Bureau headquarters in Suitland, U.S. Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Dist. 4) of Fort Washington asked several dozen community leaders gathered at her office Jan. 6 to consider how their communities could use a piece of the $400 billion pie of annual federal funding that will be given out based on the 2010 census.

 

"It's really important that [the count is] accurate," Edwards said, adding that if communities are undercounted and don't get the federal funding they need, cash-strapped local governments, nonprofit organizations and other groups will have "to take up that slack."

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Congresswoman Edwards in CNN Story Discussing Health Care Reform

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Congresswoman Edwards in the Washington Post: What Does the Nobel Peace Prize Mean for Obama?

When the Nobel committee announced President Obama as the Peace Prize recipient, thus began the sarcasm, second-guessing and chatter. Some opined that selecting President Obama is either a repudiation of our former president or premature for this one. Perhaps it is neither. Perhaps the international community is reaffirming our promise as practitioners of peace and diplomacy and protectors of human rights? Perhaps the Nobel committee sees the work undone and acknowledges at once both our imperfection and our desire to keep working?

 

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Congresswoman Edwards' Op-Ed Published in the Washington Informer

 

 

A Robust Public Option is the only Option for Real Healthcare Reform  
Opinion / Editorial

BY CONGRESSWOMAN DONNA F. EDWARDS   
THURSDAY, 16 JULY 2009

 

 

The U.S. healthcare system is one of the most expensive systems in the world. We spend $2.2 trillion per year on healthcare services and products, and yet approximately 46 million Americans are uninsured, 80 percent of whom are from working families.

Almost half of all personal bankruptcies are attributed to medical debt. And, for the 80 percent of Americans who have health insurance, premiums, deductibles, and co-payments are skyrocketing; and we all pay for the flaws that leave millions uninsured and seeking care in expensive hospital emergency rooms. In fact, premiums rose 114 percent from 1999 to 2007, greatly outpacing incomes.

 

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