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Behind the Gun, Another Community Activist Gains Clarity regarding Police Procedures

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Another community activist and vocal critic of the police has gained a new perspective on police procedures after spending time in a cop’s shoes.  Members of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network, once again, are not surprised. This ...
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About Those Jobs Numbers for January: Obama?s Economic Bravado Relies on Defining down Success

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With every new month comes the federal government’s assessment and report on the previous month’s jobless numbers. Project 21 member Derryck Green uses this first-Friday announcement to comment on the state of the economy in general and employment in particular ...
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New Study: Three Ways Consumers Could Pay Exorbitantly Higher Premiums on the ObamaCare Exchanges in 2015

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Back in September, the Indiana Business Journal noted that, although some new insurers were offering lower-priced plans on Indiana’s ObamaCare exchanges, consumers wouldn’t necessarily save money:  ”Because of wrinkles in how Obamacare’s generous tax subsidies are calculated, the entrance of new ...
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IRS Gives ObamaCare Tax Delinquents Special Treatment

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The Administration is granting more special privileges under the banner of ObamaCare.  This time, it’s for people who owe taxes on the subsidy they received on the exchanges for 2014.  From Kaiser Health News: Consumers who received too much in ...
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CoOportunity Health: The Solyndra of ObamaCare

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Under ObamaCare, health Co-Ops—non-profits that provide insurance—are allowed to receive federal grant money to start up operations in the ObamaCare exchanges.  There are 23 such Co-Ops. CoOportunity Health, which serves Iowa and Nebraska, was the first one to collapse. The ...
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Illegal Immigration Has Black Americans “Struggling for Our Very Lives”

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With access to jobs, housing, education and health care all at risk for black Americans because of the influx of illegal immigrants into the United States, Project 21 member Ted Hayes said blacks are “struggling for our very lives.”  As ...
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“Government Overreach” Lands Parents in Hot Water for Letting Kids Walk to Park Alone

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When police and social workers were called in to essentially check on the fitness of parents in a Washington, D.C. suburb because they had let their kids walk to and from a park alone, it set off a national discussion ...
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Project 21’s Emmett an Early Critic of Obama’s “Free” Community College Plan

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National Center staff member Bethany Whitlock helped write this blog post. As part of his State of the Union address, President Obama proposed a new initiative to offer young Americans essentially free community college education.  Then, in his proposed tax ...
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HealthCare.Gov: Incompetence on a Massive Scale

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Last Friday, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Health and Human Services released its report on what went wrong with HealthCare.gov in 2013.  (“You would have had a lot less to read if they’d just focused ...
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Parody: Why All Good Christians Must Support ObamaCare’s Medicaid Expansion

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People who do not support ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion aren’t very good Christians.  So says Ohio Governor John Kasich. Last Tuesday, when asked about his expansion of Medicaid, Kasich replied, “Now, if you ever read Matthew 25, I think, ‘I wanna ...
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