Articles filed under Washington Post
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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...
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AI can now muddle its way through the math SAT about as well as you canSep 26, 2015 7:40 am - Artificial Intelligence is kind of a scary concept, probably because we know that a robot smarter than us would run the numbers and be like "Humanity? Nah." But the race...
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The three stages of going viral in 2015, according to the Pizza Rat memeSep 26, 2015 7:40 am - Pizza Rat is, per Internet consensus, many lofty things: a spirit animal, "all of us," a parable of life in New York City. But as the Internet's latest viral Phenomenon,...
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E-sports come 'out of the basement'Sep 26, 2015 7:38 am - On a sun-drenched Saturday afternoon in Silver Spring, Maryland, the dark, cavernous Fillmore theater is roaring with life. A sold-out crowd from around the nation is sc...
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These are the jobs where people are most likely to marry each anotherSep 26, 2015 7:38 am - You've probably heard of the big dating sites like OKCupid, Match.com and Tindr. But unless you are a love-hungry lawyer, teacher or farmer you may not be aware of small...