Michelle Obama: How Preventative Medicine is Helping Families

A message from First Lady Michelle Obama:  I want to share with you a personal story in the hopes that it encourages you to get the most out of your doctor visits for your children.

A few years ago as a working mom, I had the best intentions to feed my kids healthy food on a budget, knowing that sometimes pizza or the drive-thru were inevitable.  But I was surprised when my pediatrician pulled me aside during an annual well-child visit and told me we needed to start paying better attention to what we were feeding our girls.

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Detroit and Ford Hiring Silicon Valley in Techies

Auto industry executives are trying to make Silicon Valley engineers feel at home in Detroit. With a burgeoning number of technology job openings to fill, they’re scouring Internet companies for workers, wining and dining applicants, and seeking promising students at schools such as Stanford University.

“We have a whole slew of job postings out there currently,” said Doug VanDagens, director of Ford’s connected service solutions, who has been trying to lure engineers to the automaker to design software. “We’re just on a growth binge.”

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Voices of Health Reform: Mark’s Story

Mark is a big advocate for the Affordable Care Act and its benefits for small business, more so because his business has benefitted immensely from it. Because of the tax credit that he became eligible for, he was able to hire on one more employee who not only turned out to be a great asset to his team, but became part of what he says was his business' best year yet.

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