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...far-reaching energy, trade and security implications....

Proposed reforms to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) threaten teacher accountability....

...continuous cuts to doctors will only reduce access to care....

Hawaii salaries are 16th highest in USA.  When adjusted for cost of living, Hawaii salaries drop to 50th....

...in nine of the 10 states most reliant on wind power, electricity prices are rising at least five times faster than the national average....

Today, more than 800 million people are malnourished....

San Francisco saw an increase in litter after its bag ban was implemented....

...studies have been done on the value of preschool programs, and the results are not positive for preschool supporters....

Certificate-of-need (CON) laws prohibit health care providers from offering new services or new medical equipment without approval from the state....

...lawmakers are pushing to enact the Marketplace Fairness Act after the November midterm elections....

...election day is November 4, and Obamacare’s second open enrollment begins on November 15....

The government was forced to raise the tax after they noticed that bag use was increasing as consumers began absorbing the cost of the bags....

...in 2017, two significant ACA provisions -- which keep insurance costs down by giving taxpayer dollars to insurance companies -- expire....

...On average, it takes CMS 190 days to approve a waiver, though it can take up to 1,637 days (more than four years!) to receive approval....

...25 percent of education expenditures going to non-teacher salaries and benefits....

...Labor Compliance Advisors -- appointed by each government agency -- will decide whether the contractors have shown a "lack of integrity or business ethics."....

...ACA enrollees may also be sicker....

...paper and reusable bags use more energy and release more greenhouse gas emissions than plastic bags....

... the debate over evaluations has been full of false information ....

Ryan is looking back to the success of the 1996 welfare reform....

California Senate Bill 593 would utilize private-sector ideas, and funds, to address problems such as homelessness and crime recidivism....

A California state judge ruled on Tuesday that granting a teacher tenure after less than two years in a teaching position is unconstitutional....

...the EPA's new cap-and-trade regulations will make the poor a lot poorer....

...6 million people have had their insurance policies canceled, and another 19 million are enrolled in private health plans that do not comply with the Affordable Care Act....

The problems emerging from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are deeper than corruption and mismanagement....

...it costs nearly twice as much to produce as natural gas....

...the amount of land required to grow food has decreased by 65 percent over the last 50 years across the world....

Just one 25-gallon tank of ethanol requires 450 pounds of corn -- the same amount of calories it would take to feed one person for an entire year....

Biofuels made with corn residue actually release 7 percent more greenhouse gas....

Since 1980, men's wages have risen only by 6 percent, while women's wages have risen by 60 percent....

...each quota owner would have the right to a specific percentage of the total allowable catch (TAC) in the season....

These types of offenses include truancy, running away from home, incorrigibility, curfew violations, and alcohol and tobacco consumption....

Is it a loss of wealth by the rich or an increase in wealth to the poor? The latter, according to research....

Income Share Agreements are better tools for student financing than traditional student loans....

Starting this year, ObamaCare's "annual fee" tax will be passed on to consumers in the form of higher premiums....

Professional development programs in the field of education have very little scientific support....

An increasing number of doctors are moving to salaried hospital jobs, says the New York Times....

Over 42 million tourists visited the United States in 2012 after completing the required visa process. The process, however, is unnecessarily difficult....

The “Nirvana” of a transit-, walking-, and cycling-oriented metropolitan area proves to be no Nirvana at all.... 

President Obama tells us that "health care costs are growing at the slowest rate in 50 years."....

Policymakers should adopt privacy measures to protect patients from potential problems with electronic health records....

It doesn’t take long to figure out that people haven’t learned a blessed thing from flushing $20 billion down the toilet....

The federal government will reimburse insurers for 50 percent of any losses through the "risk corridors" in the Affordable Care Act....

CMS plans to save $144 million a year with these measures between 2015 and 2019....

...some of the worst-performing buildings in the country have received LEED's highest scores....

...high-income and low-income filers had large tax expenditures, while middle-income taxpayers had smaller expenditures....

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) paid $33.2 billion as a result of fraud or mistake....

Thirty-six states (including Hawaii) require that health care providers seeking to offer or expand their services obtain what are known as Certificates of Need (CON)....

Today, riskier investments appear to improve public pension funding. Current accounting rules mean that riskier investments are given higher expected rates of return....