| Above the Fold |
August 17, 2011 |
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| Today's News |
| Officials: 11th Circuit PPACA ruling clouds benefits picture |
| By Arthur D. Postal |
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The 11 U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) ensures that the U.S. Supreme Court will be the ultimate arbiter of the law’s constitutionality, but it also further muddies the water as to what benefits employers will have to provide to their employees, industry officials said...Read more
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| Obama to give major jobs speech |
| By Ben Feller |
| Seeking a jolt for the economy, President Barack Obama will lay out new ideas for speeding up job growth and helping the struggling poor and middle class in a major speech in early September, a senior administration official told The Associated Press...Read more |
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| Wis. GOP's Senate edge stays at 1 after recalls
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| By Scott Bauer |
| Wisconsin Democrats sought Tuesday to hold the ground they gained in last week's recall elections by fending off Republican attempts to oust two senators who fled the state in opposition to Gov. Scott Walker's proposal curbing public employee collective bargaining rights...Read more |
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| The Pulse |
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| Will the CLASS Act survive the Super Committee? |
| By Carol Einhorn |
| The fate of the CLASS Act is in the hands of the "Super Committee," a group of 12 lawmakers created to propose more than one trillion dollars in federal spending cuts. Although the newly created committee may have the motivation and means to stop the clock before the starting bell actually goes off, it's unlikely that will happen...Read more |
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