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Quickly on health care: Dennis Kucinich has decided to vote for health reform. Is one of the deciding factors that in nine states, health insurance companies can deny coverage to survivors of domestic violence — citing the battery as a “pre-existing condition”?

No. Obama just gave him the hard sell. But the bill would make denying coverage to battered women illegal, along with numerous other important reforms.

Shocking statistic of the day: the average net wealth of an African American single woman is $5. Five. dollars. And that’s wealth, not income. There are racial gaps in income and wealth, and gender gaps. African American women get hit doubly hard.

Need a little happiness after all that? Apropos of nothing: here’s a webcam of a hummingbird preparing to hatch her eggs. Live!

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