Articles filed under Washington Post
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Third Affordable Care Act sign-up period to focus on 10.5 million uninsured AmericansSep 27, 2015 7:42 am - WASHINGTON - As a third open enrollment season nears under the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administration plans to focus on 10.5 million uninsured Americans, trying t...
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Don't plan on doing these things if the government shuts downSep 27, 2015 7:41 am - WASHINGTON - Old Faithful would erupt with no one watching, because Yellowstone National Park and 407 others would close to the public. Homebuyers would find their mortg...
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Shuttering the government actually costs more than keeping it openSep 27, 2015 7:40 am - WASHINGTON - Budget hawks in Congress may stand their ground on wasteful spending, but shutting down the government is no example of fiscal frugality. Lost work, back pa...
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Hints of consensus at Federal Reserve on ratesSep 27, 2015 7:38 am - The Federal Reserve's top officials headed into a pivotal meeting last week divided over whether to begin withdrawing its extraordinary stimulus of the U.S. economy - an...
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Why middle class households are worse off now than 16 years agoSep 27, 2015 7:36 am - WASHINGTON - Once upon a time, American men used to get something called a "raise." That is when your employer would actually pay you more money. Now, it is true that so...
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The one thing you need to know about Clinton's war on high drug pricesSep 27, 2015 7:36 am - WASHINGTON - It's almost an afterthought, but the last two bullet points dangling at the end of Hillary Rodham Clinton's manifesto against high drug prices are its linch...
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Health plan deductibles are growing seven times as fast as wagesSep 27, 2015 7:32 am - WASHINGTON - As head of human resources for a Minnesota company with 1,600 employees that manufactures equipment for the mining industry, Scott Arndt saw the writing on ...
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A financial guide to retiring abroadSep 27, 2015 7:31 am - Is it your goal to spend your golden years living in a hut on the beach of a Caribbean island? Or do you dream of a second act running a vineyard in Tuscany? Retiring ov...
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Government agency's effort to stop future cyberthefts again draws auditors' criticismSep 26, 2015 7:44 am - Months into a government effort to better protect personal information it holds on tens of millions of Americans following two major breaches, auditors remain concerned ...
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Advertising on the Internet supports the free contentSep 26, 2015 7:41 am - The arms race over software that can block ads from appearing on websites is heating up again, generating a frenzy of overheated rhetoric about the impending death of th...