Cancer death rates in U.S. keep falling: American Cancer Society

(Reuters) - Cancer death rates are continuing to fall, dropping by 1.8 percent per year in men and 1.6 percent per year in women between 2004 and 2008, according to the American Cancer Society's annual report on cancer statistics released on Wednesday.

Advances in cancer screening and treatment have prevented more than a million total deaths from cancer since the early 1990s, according to the report. This year, the cancer group projects 1,638,910 people will be newly diagnosed with cancer and 577,190 people will die from it.

"The big news this year is that cancer deaths are still going down," said Dr. Raymond DuBois, provost and executive vice president at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

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ObamaCare Created 23,000 Jobs In December

The numbers are out for job creation and it looks pretty good. The unemployment rate went down to 8.5% from 8.7% and 200,000 jobs were created.

Here is the hidden gem. While looking into the different sectors, I found that the healthcare sector added 23K jobs in December and a total of 315K jobs in 2011. But if we listened to the right wing meme, the Obamacare law should have caused layoffs. Especially considering Obamacare DIRECTLY regulates the health insurance and healthcare industries.

The healthcare industry has seen their profits increase dramatically in 2011 according to bloomberg, “..profit margins at the companies widened to levels not seen since before the recession, a Bloomberg Government study shows.” So much for the talking point, that this law is bad for business.

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A Humane Immigration Policy Proposal

Adrian Saenz, National Latino Vote Director on January 7, 2012

Yesterday, President Obama made a decision that should make us all proud.

He proposed an immigration rule change that will keep American families together by cutting bureaucratic wait times and relieving undue hardship on U.S. citizens who are unfairly separated from their loved ones.

The current law requires undocumented spouses and children of U.S. citizens to leave the country in order to complete the legal immigration process. But once they leave the country, they are often prohibited from returning to the United States—sometimes for up to a decade.

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