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Obama :: No Matter Who You Are.... :: by Chips

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The Affordable Health Act Is Going to Change Lives

One of the overlooked elements in Thursday's decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act is that, beyond the individual mandate and the hysterical politics surrounding it, the act itself is chock-full of innovative ideas and pilot programs and all sorts of other experimental goodness directed toward making easier the lives of people dealing with serious health problems. Like, for example, Alzheimer's Disease. Stories that you don't notice on the news get me sitting bolt upright in my chair because I happen to have a serious and ugly dog in this particular fight.

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Gearing Up: Proposed Auto Efficiency Standards Will Create 570,000 Jobs By 2030

New fuel economy standards proposed in 2011 by the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation could create 570,000 jobs between 2017 and 2030, according to a report released today by the BlueGreen Alliance.

The new standards have a number of benefits. First, the innovation necessary to meet the mandated 54.5 mph average by 2025 will create 50,000 jobs in design, manufacturing and development. The roughly $68 billion saved by consumers at the pump due to the standards could help create another 500,000 or so jobs. ACEEE Executive Director Steve Nadel described it this way in a call announcing the report:

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