Insurance Finder, a tool on Healthcare.gov, allows businesses to comparison shop for health insurance. The Department of Health and Human Services is trying to save small businesses time and hopefully, money. It's launched a new tool at Healthcare.gov to help find and compare health insurance plans
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Congress wants to keep pizza and french fries on school lunch lines, fighting back against an Obama administration proposal to make school lunches healthier.
Read More »Startup Lessons From Google+
Google+ has everything you'd expect from a fully featured social network -- except the right kind of users. And that's a big problem
Read More »Approval Delayed for Keystone Crude-Oil Pipeline
By Arshad Mohammed and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will study a new route for the Keystone XL Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline, U.S. officials said on Thursday, delaying any final approval beyond the 2012 election and sparing President Barack Obama a politically risky decision for now. [More]
Read More »Ruling on Canada-to-Texas Oil Pipeline Faces Delay
By Jeff Jones and Andrew Quinn CALGARY/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The decision on the controversial Canada-to-Texas Keystone pipeline could slip into next year, a U.S.
Read More »Obama: Health, Economy to Affect Keystone Decision
By Jeff Mason and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday health and economic factors would be taken into account when he decides whether to approve TransCanada Corp's Canada-to-Texas Keystone XL pipeline proposal.
Read More »Pearson, Blackboard, And Education’s New "Openwashing"
Open educational resources--textbooks, curricula, video lectures and more that are released, usually online, under Creative Commons license for free sharing and reuse--have been at the forefront of the movement for higher education innovation. They're a key part of the Obama administration's national education technology plan ; in January, the Department of Ed created a $2 billion grant program to fund open community college textbooks and other materials.
Read More »Long-term healthcare woes to worsen in U.S.
With failure of Obama's long-term healthcare solution, getting help for it will be harder than ever
Read More »Scientists Lauded at the White House, Winners of National Medals
The honorees stood, backs ramrod straight, facing the audience at the White House.
Read More »Does the GOP Really Love You?
Republicans claim to be the party of entrepreneurs. Here's how it could prove it really means it. The Republican primary debate smackdown in Las Vegas on Tuesday underscored a couple things you already knew about the GOP candidates.
Read More »Facebook Faces Wire Tap Lawsuit, Google Plans Music Store, Samsung’s New Phone Due Oct. 19
Wiretap Affair Could Oust Murdochs . A key shareholder group is maneuvering to oust Rupert Murdoch and his two sons from the management of News Corp., calling for the board to eject the men and for an independent investigation into the phone hacking scandal --the aftereffects of which are still echoing around the world.
Read More »VCs to Stem Med-Tech Investment
The FDA's regulatory process is the major reason and a report calls it a threat to investment to U.S. medical innovation
Read More »VCs to Stem Med-Tech Investment
The FDA's regulatory process is the major reason and a report calls it a threat to investment to U.S. medical innovation.
Read More »First lady targets world record for jumping jacks
Michelle Obama will lead hundreds of children in an event on the South Lawn of the White House Tuesday in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the most people doing jumping jacks in a 24-hour period.
Read More »The Right Tax on the Wrong People
The American Jobs Act includes a clause that--if enacted on the venture capital industry--could hamper start-up investment, innovation, and, ultimately, job creation. Tucked away on Page 139 of Obama’s American Jobs Act, after the sections on payroll tax credits and unemployment benefits, are a few lines of text that could change the way venture capital investment works in this country.
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