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How Michigan’s Welfare Population Declined by 70% in 4 Years

Click here: “Welfare should promote self-sufficiency for able-bodied adults,” Rachel Sheffield, a policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal.  “A crucial aspect of achieving this goal is a work requirement: Able-bodied adults should be required to work, prepare for work, or look for work in exchange for receiving assistance.

“Welfare is available for those who truly need it,” she said, “but the ultimate goal is self-sufficiency.”

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Case New Holland gives $5,000 Grant to WB Schools

Photo by Dan Hockett Case New Holland of Burlington gives a $5,000 ‘Project Lead the Way’ grant to West Burlington School District’s Junior High Technical and Pre-Engineering Program. From left: Pat Daly – President Local 807 UAW, Bruce Snodgrass – WB HS/JH Principal, Laura Hubbard – CNH HR Manager, Taylor Fountain – Industrial Tech Teacher, David Schmitt – WB Superintendent.
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Case New Holland of Burlington gives a $5,000 ‘Project Lead the Way’ grant to West Burlington School District’s Junior High Technical and Pre-Engineering Program. From left: Pat Daly – President Local 807 UAW, Bruce Snodgrass – WB HS/JH Principal, Laura Hubbard – CNH HR Manager, Taylor Fountain – Industrial Tech Teacher, David Schmitt – WB Superintendent.
Photo by Dan Hockett Students from one of the West Burlington Junior High Classes that will benefit from Case New Holland’s $5,000 grant give thumbs up to say thanks!
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Students from one of the West Burlington Junior High Classes that will benefit from Case New Holland’s $5,000 grant give thumbs up to say thanks!
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The Democratic National Committee Is Broke

Click here: Federal Election Commission records reveal that the DNC is millions of dollars underwater and running up deficits every month, lagging far behind its financially savvy counterpart, the Republican National Committee.

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How to Solve America’s Spending Problem

Everyone complains about America’s debt, and rightly so, but how do we get out of it? As Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner explains, spending on entitlement programs — Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid — has exploded in recent decades. We must slow their growth or they will soon swallow the entire federal budget. In five minutes, learn how America can preserve these programs and get out of debt.

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Obamacare Death Spiral? America’s Largest Health Insurer Ready to Bail

Click here: ObamaCare Death Spiral: America’s Largest Health Insurer Ready to Bail

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Student protester wants free college, but has no idea how to pay for it

A painful exchange with a young student who’s organizing for free public colleges, cancellation of all student debt and $15/hour minimum wage for all campus employees. She doesn’t really know how to pay for it, unfortunately.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmji36q8E4o

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Game of Loans. (student loans)

Why does student debt keep going up and up even as it’s harder and harder to find a good job with a college degree? And why does it seem that the more aid the government and colleges give, the less it helps? Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, shows how politicians and universities have saddled students with dangerous debt…and with little to show for it.

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Successful liberals live by conservative values.

Successful liberals live by conservative values. It’s true. The liberal musician, the liberal chef, the liberal writer–all swear by things conservatives love, like competition, earned reward, and, yes, profit and the bottom line.

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Campaign Finance Reform Corrupts

What corrupts politics more? Millionaires and billionaires? Or the rules that intend to limit the influence of wealthy donors? George Will, author and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post, explains who designed campaign finance reform and why Congress’s solution to the problem may actually be the bigger problem.

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Cuba — A Failed Experiment

Click here: Cuba, after 50 years of total government economic controls, reminds us of that old saying: “Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth – but socialism is the equal distribution of poverty.”
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