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The $1.1 trillion bipartisan spending bill passed by Congress funds federal agencies through the rest of the fiscal year, eases the sharp budget cuts known as the sequester and ends the lingering...
View ArticleClik here to view.
More New Retirement Account Proposals
Americans are way short in their retirement savings, and President Obama’s MyRA plan, which he unveiled last week, isn’t the only new proposal that aims to help with that problem. Sens. Susan Collins,...
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Stop Selling Smokes, Senators Tell Drugstores
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The Cost of Not Expanding Medicaid
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Answers About the Health Care Law Deadline
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Older Voters Split in Terms of Party ID
While a new Gallup Poll finds that voters 65 and older have moved from “a reliably Democratic to a reliably Republican group” over the past two decades, voters in the next-oldest age bracket – 50 to 64...
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