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A surge in homebuilding pushed U.S. construction spending up by the largest amount in five months, the latest indication that the housing sector is slowly recovering.
Construction spending rose 0.9 percent in May, following a 0.6 percent rise in April, the Commerce Department reported Monday. It was the biggest percentage gain since December.
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Following the Supreme Court’s ruling that Obamacare, the 2010 health care law, is constitutional under Congress’ ability to tax, Republicans have launched a full court press calling the individual mandate a “
massive tax hike.” But as ThinkProgress noted yesterday, there is no massive tax hike:
few people will ever pay the penalty, and those who do will pay less than the amount of the payroll tax increase that Republicans nearly allowed to occur.
In addition, according to a report from Families USA, 28.6 million Americans, most of them middle-class,
will receive tax cuts under the bill due to entering health care exchanges and receiving affordability credits:
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Apple Needs to Make it in America
