Moral standards in policy. Susan Pace Hamill, law professor at the University of Alabama Law School, is running for a house seat in the state of Alabama. ... "I believe the process through which government makes all policy should be premised on central moral and ethical standards," said Hamill in a press release.
Unemployment. The pace of U.S. job losses hit a one-year low last month but the unemployment rate jumped to a 26-year high of 9.7 percent, the government said on Friday in a report showing a slowly improving labor market.
Health care politics. With President Obama poised to give a health-care address Wednesday before a joint session of Congress, administration officials promised that he will deliver a detailed prescription for reform despite the risks of spelling out exactly where he stands.
Quote of the day. "We all die, and we want to do so with the most dignity and most control. It seemed a no-brainer. And it spares our children from making those decisions." Barbara Frank, a retired teacher in LaCrosse WI, where nearly everyone of a certain age has an advance-care directive, a pioneering program that became the impetus for the “end-of-life-provision” in health care legislation now infamously called “death panels.” (Washington Post)
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