Hackers breach Healthcare.gov system, taking files on 75,000 people A government system used by insurance agents and brokers to help customers sign up for healthcare plans was breached, allowing hackers to siphon off sensitive and personal data on 75,000 people. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services confirmed the breach in a late Friday announcement, […]
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HQ2 Cont.
Where were people expecting HQ2 to go? Also, Amazon is now the third most-valuable company in the US after Apple and Microsoft, and is expanding in Europe, the Middle East, India and China. New headquarters on the other side of the country could help it oversee to its global workforce and its increasingly international customer […]
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Amazon HQ2
Amazon picks NYC and northern Virginia as HQ2 winners After a year of hype and anticipation, Amazon picked not one, but two locations for its HQ2 project. The world’s largest online retailer on Tuesday selected Long Island City in New York City’s Queens borough and National Landing (a new name for the Crystal City neighborhood) […]
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Cities Paying For You
These 5 U.S. Cities Will Pay You to Move There “Can’t afford a move to the Big Apple? These five up-and-coming towns are offering hefty bonuses for new residents.” Everyone wants to move to New York City or San Francisco — or at least everyone wishes they could afford to. But given the sky-high housing […]
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Wells Fargo Cheats Again
‘They destroyed me.’ Wells Fargo’s mistake forced her to sell her home Michaela Christian lost a long battle with Wells Fargo in 2013 to save her Las Vegas home, a defeat she says changed the course of her life. When the bank refused to modify her mortgage, Christian moved in with a friend and scrambled […]
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Fake Internet
Over 40 percent of activity on the internet is fake?? White Ops recently reported on the indictments of two advertising-fraud operations — Methbot and 3ve. Both scams involved fooling advertisers into thinking their ads had been placed on prominent websites and received copious amounts of attention. However, it turned out that everything from the ad […]
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Dollar Stores
The Dollar Store Backlash Has Begun “The U.S. has added 10,000 of these budget retail outlets since 2001. But some towns and cities are trying to push back.” It has become an increasingly common story: A dollar store opens up in an economically depressed area with scarce healthy and affordable food options, sometimes with the […]
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Mitch And Democratic House
House Democrats’ Second Bill Is a Winner. Too Bad Mitch Runs The Senate The House Democrats have unveiled their H.R. 2, their symbolic second bill (after opening up the government) that they want to pass with their new majority, and lo and behold, it’s good! Here it is (pdf). It’s short, for a bill. Have […]
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House Republicans Deficit Legacy
House Republicans Got Away With It—Again “The real legacy of the GOP House majority isn’t about the deficit. It’s about manipulation” In 2009, House Republicans went hat-in-hand to the American people begging for another chance. After squandering their majority status in the George W. Bush years and getting creamed at the polls in 2006 and […]
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Free College in Some States
Free college is now a reality in close to 20 states “There was no way I could have gone to a university after high school,” said Emily Buckner, 20. “My parents were laid off during the recession and it set us back a lot,” she said. “When I finished high school, there was nothing.”Instead, Buckner […]