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One of the numerous new taxes created under Obamacare will cost the United States hundreds of thousands of jobs over the next decade, a new report concludes.

The report by the National Federation of Independent Business Research Foundation, a nonprofit association of business owners, found that the Health Insurance Tax in the Affordable Care Act will cause a rise in the cost of employer

A growing number of statehouses are considering measures that would allow school districts, parents and students increasingly to use taxpayer funds to explore alternatives to traditional state-backed public education.

The flurry of new bills—which range from supporting private-school options to putting education dollars directly into parents’ hands—comes amid concerns of federal

The barricades that were knocked over by protesters during the federal government shutdown have been officially taken away, opening parks now that Congress passed and the president signed a bill funding the government and restoring borrowing authority into 2014.

Here are 17 pictures showing what the end of the shutdown looks like from the parks’ perspective.

The Obama administration amped up its offensive Sunday with Republicans over the $85 billion in across-the-board federal spending cuts scheduled to kick in Friday, releasing fresh warnings of a “real impact on peoples lives despite GOP claims the White House is exaggerating the potential ill effects.