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Living Wages Let Workers Afford Healthier Food

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Living Wages Let Workers Afford Healthier Food

By JILL RICHARDSON– Healthy food is expensive and telling people to eat organic, local food is elitist. Have you heard that argument before? It’s true. Healthy, organic, local food is expensive. Calorie for calorie, you get more for your money at a fast food drive-through than at a farmer’s market. And the fast food will be […]

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Feds Will Run Health Insurance Marketplaces In 25 States

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Feds Will Run Health Insurance Marketplaces In 25 States

By PHIL GALEWITZ and ALVIN TRAN, KHN— It’s official. The Obama administration will be running new health insurance marketplaces in half the states— including the major population centers of Texas, Florida and Pennsylvania. The federal government had hoped more states last week would agree to form a partnership health insurance exchange—the deadline to apply was Friday, […]

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Global Unemployment Rising Again But With Big Regional Differences

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Global Unemployment Rising Again But With Big Regional Differences

ILO News– Global unemployment rose in 2012 after falling for two straight years and could further increase in 2013, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has warned in a new report A quarter of the increase in global unemployment in 2012 has been in the advanced economies, while three quarters has been through spillovers into other […]

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Record Low Number of People Moving Reflects Lack of Jobs

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Record Low Number of People Moving Reflects Lack of Jobs

Bad times mean staying put. The percentage of people who changed residences between 2010 and 2011 ─ 11.6% ─ was the lowest recorded rate since 1948. when the U.S. Census Bureau began collecting statistics on the movement of people in the United States. The rate, which was 20.2% in 1985, declined to a then-record low of […]

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