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• House votes to amend Obamacare: how it would affect community colleges
• Rum, race cars, windmills win Senate tax favor
• U.S. News Kicks Off 2015 Best Colleges Rankings Data Collection
• 4 Benefits for International Students Considering Colleges in a City
• Paging Hollywood Movie Writers: Popular Teens Get Bullied Too

House votes to amend Obamacare: how it would affect community colleges Posted: 03 Apr 2014 01:23 PM PDT Taking aim at Obamacare, this time short of a full repeal, the Republican-led House passed the Save American Workers Act (H.R. 2575) Thursday by a vote of 248 to 179. The bill seeks to preserve jobs by reducing employer obligations to provide health care for certain workers, but in so doing, say critics, would lead to more people without health care and a greater financial burden on the federal government. The bill would change the definition of full-time employees under the Affordable Care Act, requiring medium and large employers (about 4 percent of all employers) to provide health insurance for those working more than 40 hours a week, up from 30 hours in the original law. The full-time worker issue has raised questions about whether the ACA is harmful to the education sector – particularly community colleges, which rely heavily on part-time adjunct faculty and have especially lean budgets.

Rum, race cars, windmills win Senate tax favor Posted: 03 Apr 2014 12:30 PM PDT The U.S. Senate's tax committee approved a package of special-interest tax breaks on Thursday, including three measures that were left off the list two days ago in a brief bipartisan nod toward fiscal reform. In a sign of business-as-usual on Capitol Hill, the Senate Finance Committee backed tax breaks for auto race tracks, wind energy, multinational corporations, Hollywood, school teachers, Puerto Rican rum producers, college tuition and more. They will next go to the full Senate for consideration. The tax-writing House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee is set to vote on its own extenders package next week.

U.S. News Kicks Off 2015 Best Colleges Rankings Data Collection Posted: 03 Apr 2014 06:30 AM PDT Projects like the U.S. News Best Colleges rankings don't happen overnight. U.S. News works on the college rankings 12 months a year. The most recent step in the process was the release of the three U.S. News statistical surveys -- main, financial aid and finance -- on March 27. The statistical data collected will be used for the 2015 edition of our college rankings, which will be published later this year.

4 Benefits for International Students Considering Colleges in a City Posted: 03 Apr 2014 05:00 AM PDT Even though there are some perks of living in a small college town, like having a more traditional college experience, international students can find exciting opportunities at urban campuses. Choosing a college or university in a major city may also help new international students find ways to stay connected to their home countries. Whether you are thinking about attending a school in New York City, Miami, Los Angeles or another U.S. city, there are some guaranteed ways to make the best out of living and studying in a city. Some people say that you could eat out every night in New York City and never eat at the same place twice.

Paging Hollywood Movie Writers: Popular Teens Get Bullied Too Posted: 02 Apr 2014 05:43 AM PDT It's a tried-and-true Hollywood plot: An unpopular high school student (he or she is always different—but different in a cool way we can relate to) gets totally bullied by the popular kids. Faris' team studied more than 4,000 high schoolers from 19 public schools in North Carolina.

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