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  • Sadly, there are a lot more non-engaged parents than I would have guessed. Last few years have been eye opening.
    Grammar... The difference between feeling your nuts and feeling you're nuts.

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    • How to do a basic ROI analysis.
      To be a professional means that you don't die. - Takeru "the Tsunami" Kobayashi

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      • Financial literacy is definitely a way to help kids understand why they need math. Good practical thing to incorporate into the curriculum.

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        • Originally posted by entropy View Post
          Sadly, there are a lot more non-engaged parents than I would have guessed. Last few years have been eye opening.
          Yeah...and to think, we have a pretty darn good district, and a nice part of town in general. Imagine what the engagement level is at KCPS.

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          • Balancing a checkbook, credit card debt would be a good subject to have, although both things are concepts that are better learned as you have some experience with it. High schoolers really don't have that knowledge. It is very similar to learning grammar and English early on in life before you have written a damn thing.

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            • Well I was good at the latter, but sure did need real-life experience with the former. If there's one aspect of financial literacy that needs to be driven home, it's the time value of money. An interest rate is so abstract compared with using it to calculate total repayment costs over the life of a debt.

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              • Well, at least we have a president-Elect that knows a few things about running a quality higher learning program. ;)

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                • The reporter who initially uncovered the fact that Carrier was planning to move to Mexico was denied entrance to Trump's event today (Carrier and not Trump to blame)

                  Call 6 Investigates Chief Investigator Rafael Sanchez was denied press credential access to the announcement event at the Carrier plant that will detail the deal the west-side Indianapolis plant made with President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence.

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                  • 8 major changes if Tom Price's (the new HHS) bill gets through.



                    Some highlights:

                    1) Everything about Obamacare is ripped away including the state insurance markets set up right now. Instead based on age (not income) you buy your insurance on the private market. And you will get a credit of $1200 to $3000 for your insurance.

                    2) Insurers cannot refuse you if you have a preexisting condition PROVIDED you have had insurance for at least 18 months of continuous coverage. If let your insurance lapse you could pay up to 150% of the standard premiums for up to 2 years.

                    3) Expanded use of HSAs

                    4) A cap on the amount of money that companies could deduct from their taxes to defray the cost of providing health insurance to their workers. Price?s approach would limit the employer tax exclusion for providing health insurance to $8,000 a year for individual policies and $20,000 for families.

                    5) Price would repeal the expanded Medicaid coverage in 32 states and the District of Columbia for able-bodied single people and leave those current beneficiaries to fend for themselves on the open market, using other tax credits and benefits.

                    6) It would eliminate Obamacare-style mandates for insurers to include a standard package of benefits such as maternity services and pediatric care and allow them to offer cheaper, less comprehensive policies to younger people who are looking for a bargain. At the same time, insurers could jack up the premiums and copayments on their oldest enrollees by as much as the market would bear.
                    2012 Detroit Lions Draft: 1) Cordy Glenn G , 2) Brandon Taylor S, 3) Sean Spence olb, 4) Joe Adams WR/KR, 5) Matt McCants OT, 7a) B.J. Coleman QB 7b) Kewshan Martin WR

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                    • [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB1UldUg-r4"]Alex Jones Prays for Donald Trump - YouTube[/ame]

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                      • A Milwaukee police sergeant who served jail time for letting his 13-year-old daughter drive and driving drunk himself with the child in his car is up for promotion to lieutenant.


                        And people wonder why there is declining faith in law enforcement...

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                        • Here are some potential impacts we should all be worried about under Price.

                          Why sex is about to get a lot less fun

                          Jill Filipovic says that with Donald Trump’s pick Tom Price running Health and Human Services, women will suffer from lack of access to birth control.

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                          • everybody here is too old for that anyways.

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                            • speak for yourself.

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                              • I was speaking about everybody BUT myself.

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