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Obama's Town Halls Target Young Voters -- But Are the Kids Tuned In?
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyThis week, the president logged considerable time trying to determine whether the kids are alright -- or in fact, whether the kids don't stand a chance. Speaking at two youth-focused town halls in an effort to gin up his base of 18- to 29-year-old voters, Obama took his message to millennials at George Washington University (on Tuesday) and BET studios in Washington (on Thursday) for an MTV-sponsored forum. With little more than two weeks to go before the midterm elections, the president was making his appeal to a base that remains strong in its support: though approval for the president ...
Study: Obesity Is More Expensive for Women
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Sept. 21) -- Obesity hurts your health, but it also hurts your wallet. That's the conclusion of a new study by George Washington University scholars who've tabulated the cost of being obese, compared to merely being overweight. The results found that obesity costs women almost twice as much as men. And it's more than nine times as costly for women to be obese, rather than just overweight. Researchers tabulated the cost of medical bills, employee sick days, health insurance, lost productivity and even the need for extra gasoline to fuel cars carrying heavier passengers. In total, they ...
Michelle Obama Pledge Ruffles Feathers at GW University
By Andrew Clark - Politics DailyThis year, Christmas came early for George Washington University's politically active campus. Commencement speaker announcements always kick up firestorms of controversy, as some students find their invited speaker to be too liberal or too conservative, too radical or too reactionary -- or just too darn disagreeable -- for the student body to handle. Most university students are fairly seasoned with the resulting political drama, and dismiss it as just political posturing -- yet, they don't expect to hear the calls of controversy and bias until March, or perhaps April. So when GWU's school ...
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