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...the earning differential between college and high school graduates fell 11 percent for men and 19.7 percent for women....

...the HIT would increase health insurance premiums by more than $2,800 per person and $6,800 per family over a decade....

As of January 1, a new tax rule will prevent restaurant workers from collecting automatic tips....

...GMOs could offer a healthier and more secure future for the poor across the world....

...a family of four could pay a $962 premium under ObamaCare but only a $160 premium under the Walmart plan....

The Times report also examines the psychology of GMOphobes ....

A group of 10,000 low-income Oregon residents who recently obtained Medicaid coverage visited ERs 40 percent more often....

The most-free jurisdiction in North America is in Canada, according to a study by Dean Stansel, a professor at Florida Gulf Coast University, and Fred McMahon of the Fraser Institute....

ObamaCare is only going to get worse....

A barrel of Brent currently changes hands for $109; WTI fetches just $98; HECO pays $132....

...FERC oversees all permits for hydropower plans. The process is so onerous that license-seekers sometimes have to obtain permits from up to 25 different agencies. It can take years....

...dedicated hospital observation units could lead to $950 million in national cost savings, according to a new study in Health Affairs....

To meet the promise of free preventive care nationwide, every family doctor in America would have to work full-time delivering it, leaving no time for all the other things they need to do....

Consumers choose plastic bags far more often than paper or reusable bags to carry their purchases.... 

U.S. energy policy should be changed to reflect its newfound energy abundance....

Because the new predictions are less dire than in the past, the IPCC’s old fans have suddenly become the new climate deniers, calling the IPCC’s latest report “political” and ignoring its key findings....

...the way it was conducted and its honest conclusion gives me more hope than I’ve had in a long time concerning the integrity of climate research....

It is easy to manipulate the numbers when it comes to talking about subsidies....

The United States will surpass Russia and Saudi Arabia as the world's top oil producer by 2015, and be close to energy self-sufficiency in the next two decades, amid booming output from shale formations....

...a commissioner who insists on lower premiums will reduce the amount of care available to subsidized voters without saving them a dime...

Agriculture subsidies and trade manipulation have long been among the most intractable of policy problems....

United States has reduced more carbon dioxide emissions this century than any other nation. The U.S. emissions decline is due in large part to technological advances in natural gas production ....

If old plans are restored, "fewer healthy people and younger people would be leaving their current plans" ....

Now, on a single day, I have been given the gift of multiple news reports each detailing new ways the government is hurting the environment while purporting to save it....

A few short years ago, many analysts argued that oil was nearly tapped out and America needed to plan for a post-petroleum future.  What's changed? In a word: fracking....

One of the ways that the health reform is being funded is through cuts in disproportionate share funding for hospitals....

...parents, not formal education, that make the difference for young children's readiness for school and success once they get there....

U.S. candy makers are expanding production in other countries as federal price supports and a global glut of the sweet stuff give an ever-greater advantage to foreign rivals....

...between 4.9 million and 6.1 million pounds of radioactive waste were created to make these wind turbines....

Fifty years ago this week, President John F. Kennedy signed legislation creating a federally funded Community Mental Health Centers (CMHC) program....

Economists call the process "adverse selection" and warn that in its worst iteration it could lead to a "death spiral" of falling enrollment and climbing prices....

The increase in their stock prices has raised his net worth by more than $5 billion over the past year....

A solar vendor is telling prospective customers that it has a "special arrangement" with Hawaiian Electric....

Universal pre-kindergarten schooling, every progressive's fondest dream, is back in the news....

The problem lies with the nature of the law itself, promising trillions in new government benefits while relying on dubious financing mechanisms. These problems were not only foreseeable, they were indeed widely foreseen....

Every scientific body worth counting has judged biotechnology to be safe and necessary, but still many environmental radicals play on fears of the unknown to get the public and sadly, all too often successfully, public officials....

Vermont, perhaps best known as home of the hippie ice cream company Ben & Jerry's, is 12th-best for new businesses, while South Carolina placed toward the bottom....

Most governments will need to summon substantial political will to use ObamaCare to drop retiree health care coverage....

The United States is overtaking Russia as the world's largest producer of oil and natural gas, a startling shift that is reshaping markets and eroding the clout of traditional energy-rich nations, says the Wall Street Journal....

If policymakers are committed to reducing global carbon dioxide emissions, then they will have to get serious about promoting sources of electricity production that can compete with coal on price....

The report acknowledges, finally, that the temperature has plateaued for 16 years now, which the scientists admit they can’t explain....

Since 2000, the United States has fallen from a rating of 8.65 to 7.74....

The cost of owned housing rose 75 percent more in areas of higher poverty....

The regulation from the IRS formally codifies the fine charged to people without insurance....

...mandatory GMO labels would only intensify the misconception that so-called Frankenfoods endanger people's health...

...the costly push to bring the numbers down is unsustainable and could doom those seeking benefits to years-long waits in appeals....

...the government actually stands to make an enormous profit on the president's new federal student loan system -- a boondoggle paid for by hyper-inflated tuition costs and fueled by a government-sponsored predatory-lending program....

Once they establish principles for reform, legislators can choose from a menu of options. Tinkering with existing plans is the most obvious, and sometimes the easiest....

the EPA on August 6 finally revealed the amount of ethanol that is expected to be blended into gasoline in 2013....