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Three growing entitlement programs consumed nearly half of all federal spending in 2004, and budget analysts expect them to make up an even bigger share in the future.That ll surprise a lot of Americans
stanley thermos , says Urban Institute analyst Rudolph G. Penner. People tend to underestimate the cost of popular programs, he told CBS News correspondent Barry Bagnato audio .Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid accounted for more than $1 trillion in the 2004 budget year, according to the Consolidated Federal Funds Report being released Tuesday by the Census Bureau.The new Medicare drug benefit which starts Jan. 1 will only make matters worse, reports Bagnato, adding about $724 billion in new spending over 10 years. Overall federal spending in 2004 was $2.2 tri
stanley cup llion, an increase of 5 percent from 2003. The total federal spending increase is actually down a bit from recent years, said Gerard Keffer, chief of the Census Bureau s federal programs branch. It had been running 6 to 8 percent in the past several years. For years, Washington has been fighting over how to manage the growth of entitlement programs. Analysts think the fight will continue for years to come. I think it s absolutely essential and inevitable that we are going to reform those programs, said Penner, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, a social issues research organization. How, is another question. There s very little interest, now. Remember the push for Social Secu
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A 8216 cience ; project for high school kids normally involves making a poster of the periodic table, or perhaps torching things with a small gas burner if your science teacher is a bit Walter White. If you ;re also a cadet with the Civil Aviation Patrol, on the other hand, you can make a computer-controlled, record-breaking paper airplane. To achieve the record-breaking height 96,563 feet , the students attached their one-pound plan
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