Tough Times, Tough Choices in After-School Funding: Pathways to Protecting Quality

AARP and the Politics of the Obama Election: "Tough Times, Tough Choices"

The 2008 election and first two years of President Barack Obama’s administration was the context for an analysis of AARP news coverage. This research examined how news coverage was presented in the AARP Bulletin. During the health care debate, AARP often mentioned President Obama over congressional leaders. However, after passage of the law and subsequent election of a new congress, the Republi...

Tough luck and tough choices: applying luck egalitarianism to oral health.

Luck egalitarianism is often taken to task for its alleged harsh implications. For example, it may seem to imply a policy of nonassistance toward uninsured reckless drivers who suffer injuries. Luck egalitarians respond to such objections partly by pointing to a number of factors pertaining to the cases being debated, which suggests that their stance is less inattentive to the plight of the vic...

Global Developments in Priority Setting in Health

Countries around the world are experiencing an ever-increasing need to make choices in investments in health and healthcare. This makes it incumbent upon them to have formal processes in place to optimize the legitimacy of eventual decisions. There is now growing experience among countries of the implementation of stakeholder participation, and a developing convergence of methods to support dec...

Life of a PhD student: When the going gets tough, the tough get going

Being a PhD student can be tough at times, but it is also very rewarding. Learning how to work through the tough times will be key to a prosperous PhD process. There are many things to keep track of, balance, learn, and remember. PhD students are knowledge creators, but at the same time also need to acquire knowledge. This paper walks through some aspects of the PhD process, with the intent to ...

Tough times call for tough decisions.