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Democrat politicians’ first real step towards conceding Obamacare needs to be repealed and replaced....

Back in June, it looked like the hike would be 16 percent....

...MACRA imported all the worst elements of Obamacare into Medicare....

...retailers could gain an estimated $442 million in annual revenue from the sale of paper bags and reusable bags....

...the government made a couple of interventions in the market that allowed the manufacturer to raise prices....

On average, a cosmetologist needed 372 days in training while an EMT needed just 33....

The results are pretty bad, according to a report by Dr. Sanjay Gupta....

... will Hawaii be next? ....

Few policies have enjoyed as much bipartisan support as the EITC....

...teacher unions are flat out against this because they do not want their members held accountable....

Common Core is being redefined as social-emotional learning, which must come first in the learning hierarchy — with academics taking a backseat....

Offshore wind is 2.6 times more expensive as onshore wind power and is 3.4 times more expensive than power produced by a natural gas combined cycle plant....

The current Chipotle E-Coli outbreak offers an opportunity for shoppers to understand the true nature of the USDA’s organic certification program....

As the sheen wears off of subsidized health coverage, and more Americans find they are paying hundreds per month for coverage that provides few benefits....

Despite decades of exhortations and mandates, it's still typically more expensive for municipalities to recycle household waste than to send it to a landfill....

...by the end of first grade, the achievement scores for both groups were again equal and by third grade the scores of children who participated in the pre-K program were lower than those who had not....

An investigation by Hawaii's state auditor into the state's Department of Health....

...0.5 to 1 percentage point increase in the part-time fraction in high-uninsurance states relative to low-uninsurance states....

A recent Federal Reserve Bank study examined the impact of subsidized housing on homelessness....

They engage in politics to expand and protect the perks of government employees who are more likely to have attended college and garner salary and benefit packages more generous than the average private sector worker....

A study reveals that urban containment, or smart growth policies, have been shown to drive the price of housing up....

The Fraser Institutes Annual report measures the degree of economic freedom in various countries around the world....

...Hawaii, California, Oregon, Vermont, Florida and Washington, which adopted some type of restrictive land-use policy over the last 30 years, all experienced some of the largest losses, in terms of home affordability....

...the era of low American natural gas prices could extend for decades....

...four Democrats from solar-rich states, have voiced concern that solar installation companies are engaging in deceptive marketing in order to attract new customers....

The U.S. already leads the world in carbon emissions reduction thanks to the increased use of natural gas obtained through fracking....

The judge determined that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act when it issued 30 year permits to wind-energy companies without first conducting an environmental-impact assessment....

The U.S. Army managed Yellowstone and other national parks until the National Park Service was established in 1916....

...renewables have a low capacity factor because their power sources are dependent on the elements....

Hotel occupancy taxes also appear to eat into the budget tourists set for their vacation trips. Such an effect was empirically observed in Hawaii in 2013....

...the cover of Time magazine foretold of a "world without bees"....

Rising wages in China and increased industrial productivity in the United States contributed to that trend, but the report cited hydraulic fracturing as the primary reason for the shift in costs....

...electric vehicles generate a negative environmental benefit of about -0.5 cents per mile relative to comparable gasoline vehicles....

Once the higher minimum wage bill is signed into law, with the exemption for unions, then organizing becomes a win-win for employers and unions....

On December 9, 2013, the Obama Administration finalized a regulation allowing wind energy companies to obtain 30-year permits to kill eagles....

...it would take over 7 years before the savings would cover the cost of the Powerwall....

Real choice and genuine market competition could spark the real health care change America has been waiting for....

...Consumers pay for electricity twice: once through monthly electricity bills and a second time through taxes that finance subsidies for inefficient wind and other energy producers....

The reason for these new costs? "Administrative bloat," which is also known as a decline in the teaching faculty to administrative staff ratio....

Here are five Obama tax proposals that make no sense....

...Jared Meyer of Economics21 at the Manhattan Institute says the 1920 law hurts the American economy, raises prices and harms the American shipping industry....

...America's public debt "exceeds the value of the economy's annual production."....

Among 15-year-old students in the United States, 20.7 percent live in single-parent families....

...Repeal certificate of need (CON) laws....

The Affordable Care Act is now law, but controversy over the bill is far from over....

American sugar prices would be a lot lower if the government would stop interfering in the sugar market....

Smokers earning less than $30,000 annually spent 14.2 percent of their income on cigarettes....

...reauthorization of the program must be accompanied by major reforms....

Completing the agreement will create the largest free trade area, in terms of both goods and services, in which the United States participates....