| Above the Fold |
August 14, 2012 |
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| GOP ticket faces growing pains |
| By Kasie Hunt and Steve Peoples |
| The newly shaped Republican presidential ticket is fighting growing pains amid charges from President Barack Obama's re-election team that challenger Mitt Romney favors his new running mate's controversial plans to overhaul Medicare and cut trillions of dollars from social programs…Read more |
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| Obesity rate tops 30 percent in 12 states |
| By Jenny Ivy |
| The states with the highest obesity rates are mainly in the Midwest and South, according to analysis released Monday by the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation…Read more |
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| Management-level salaries returning to prerecession numbers |
| By Amanda McGrory |
| Sixty-five percent of workers say they are interviewing for positions with salary levels that are returning to prerecession levels while 26 percent of workers say salary levels are still much lower than before the recession, and 9 percent of workers say salary levels are actually higher from the start of the recession…Read more |
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| The Pulse |
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| Overheard on BenefitsPro |
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 As one who is approaching Medicare age myself I am outraged that this program and Social Security are even considered on the chopping block. I've been paying into these programs all of my working life and I DO EXPECT something for my money. I continually ask myself why is it that politicians always look to goring someone else's ox than their own? They're the ones who got us into this mess and in my opinion I think they should be the ones paying to get us out. How about some budget tightening on their part first? How about their favorite programs getting cut first? This is class warfare on a grand scale.
-- Everyone pays their fair share, Ryan's Medicare plan returns to spotlight
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