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...which Bishop worked with to produce his own job-creation tax-credit program, a 15% tax break for new hires, which is more generous than what Obama is proposing, would lead companies to add 2.8 million more workers this year than they would have without the tax break. The EPI says that plan could cost as much as $37 billion, or about $26,000 per stimulated hire...
...gene activity that do not involve alterations to the genetic code but still get passed down to at least one successive generation. These patterns of gene expression are governed by the cellular material - the epigenome - that sits on top of the genome, just outside it (hence the prefix epi-, which means above). It is these epigenetic "marks" that tell your genes to switch on or off, to speak loudly or whisper. It is through epigenetic marks that environmental factors like diet, stress and prenatal nutrition can make an imprint on genes that is passed from one generation to the next...
...overhaul of the health-care system is by taxing employer-provided health benefits, which some government officials estimate could provide up to $200 billion in additional tax revenues for national health care. Meanwhile, a second report released March 24, by the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute (EPI) think tank, shows that implementing such a tax may actually increase the ranks of the uninsured and raise premiums for people with coverage. "Taxing health-insurance benefits would encourage the young and healthy to opt out of [risk] pools," says author Elise Gould, EPI's director of health-care-policy research. "Upon their exit...
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...initiatives all pass, more than 1.5 million workers will get a raise, according to an EPI estimate, including many families living below the poverty line. For those scrambling to defeat the popular state measures, though, the fight carries on. Regardless of how the measures fare on Tuesday, a battle over the national minimum wage may soon follow in Congress...