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The Ripple Effect Of ObamaCare On Jobs

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With ObamaCare’s employer mandate less than three months from coming into effect, it’s a good time to review what impact ObamaCare is having on the job market. 1. Part-Time, Outsourcing, Lower Wages, etc. In August, the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta, ...
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Labor Force Participation Lowest Since Carter!

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While President Obama and his supporters may love that the official unemployment numbers — released today by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics for September —is the lowest monthly report since July of 2008, the devil is in the details ...
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300,000 More People Find Out That If You Like Your Plan You Really Can’t Keep It

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Last year, somewhere between 4 million and 6 million people with plans in the individual market lost those plans because they did not meet ObamaCare requirements. President Obama later issued an executive order letting insurers maintain those plans for another ...
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Revealed: The Secret Reason ObamaCare’s Insurance Options are So Mediocre

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A just-released federal study reveals the secret behind the inferior insurance options presented on the ObamaCare exchanges. The small health insurance companies apparently are being driven out of the exchanges. As reported by Richard Pollock for the Washington Examiner: Insurance ...
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Common Core: Number Sense?

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By now, you’ve no doubt seen this photo: Common Core, it seems, takes the simple way of doing math and makes it convoluted. Well, Hemant Mehta, who was a math teacher for seven years, argues that too many people aren’t ...
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Health Care Odds & Ends: Skinny Network Edition

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About two weeks ago, NCPPR released my study on insurance quality in the ObamaCare exchanges versus the individual market.  One finding was that the quality of provider networks—the network of physicians, hospitals and other health care providers available through an insurance ...
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Can’t Bloomberg Businessweek Reporters Do A Google Search?

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At Bloomberg Businessweek, reporter John Tozzi recently linked to one of my blog posts in this sentence: “Americans sometimes accuse Britain’s single-payer system of rationing of health care.” More on that in a bit. Tozzi’s piece focuses on the drug Sovaldi and ...
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Zombie Apocalypse Or VA Cheating?

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So Congress, how is that $17 billion in new funds you gave the Veterans Administration working out?  From FoxNews: The family of a U.S. Marine is demanding answers after Department of Veterans Affairs records indicated that their son had canceled ...
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Project 21’s LeBon Speaks (Separately) on Sharia Law, School Lunches

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Cherylyn Harley LeBon, co-chairman of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network, has been active in pointing out the hypocrisy of liberal policymaking at both the federal and international level. In early September, Cherylyn discussed the federal nutritional guidelines ...
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Refugee Status for Illegal Immigrants Rebutted

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With the possibility that President Barack Obama may soon attempt to abuse federal refugee policy as a means of offering some sort of amnesty to illegal immigrants, Project 21 co-chairman Horace Cooper told One America News Network host Rick Amato ...
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