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Robert Kushner, left, with worker David McConnell, urges many of his heating oil customers to participate in New Jersey’s Low Income Energy Assistance Program. Photo by Stephen Mallon

An Energy Cost Shelter
When Robert Kushner talks with his customers in the Trenton area, he often tries to sell more than his company’s main item—home heating oil. He also pitches LIHEAP.  More >>

State Budget Cuts Hurting People From Coast to Coast
The most vulnerable groups—elderly, disabled and children—are hardest hit when 41 states make midyear budget cuts in health, education and state government workforces in 2009.  More >>

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Automatic enrollment for a program that helps low-income people pay heating bills continues.

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Gov. Jon Corzine signs the Health Error Accountability Law, which requires that hospitals report 14 "never events," life-threatening medical errors that should never happen, and that the information be made public. "We will be helping people make more informed health care decisions and helping hospitals prevent medical errors," Corzine said. Behind the governor, placing a pen in his pocket, is Eduardo Rivero Jr. of Cherry Hill, whose surgeon cut into the wrong side of his head (inset photo). Photo by Jane Margesson. Inset courtesy: Eduardo Rivero Jr.

Corzine and Christie on Issues You Care About
The concept is easy to grasp: Buy in bulk, and save. Individual consumers do it all the time. So do most states, when it comes to buying prescription drugs. More >>

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