Lower income? Don’t pass up the saver’s credit
In 2002, Congress passed legislation to create an income tax credit designed to encourage lower- and middle-income people to save money for retirement. The saver’s credit, worth up to $1,000 a year for...
View ArticleLone Star State-Affordable Healthcare: Who can enroll?
The marketplace was designed for individuals who are ing their own insurance and who cannot get affordable coverage through their job or other sources. Small businesses also will be able to coverage...
View ArticleShut up and work:We wouldn’t be at this point if Congress had done its job...
For the first time in 17 years, Congress failed to provide the funding to keep the entire government running. So now you have two classes of government service and two classes of employees: “essential”...
View ArticleGraduates rank high
The University of Texas at Tyler 2013 chemistry graduates are ranked in the top six percent nationally for their critical knowledge and understanding of the field, President Rodney H. Mabry announced....
View ArticleLone Star State: Shop best medicare deal
Now’s the time for Texans with Medicare to check their health and drug coverage for 2014. Medicare’s open enrollment period runs from Oct. 15 until Dec. 7. Open enrollment is the best time to make sure...
View ArticleCharting a better path for our public schools:Even middle-class students no...
Nearly 60 years after the Supreme Court handed down its Brown v. Board of Education decision, separate but unequal school systems still stunt our nation’s potential. After the 1954 ruling, segregating...
View ArticleHealthcare.gov Glitches are not the biggest problem: Focus needs to be on...
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testified today before the U.S. House of Representatives Energy & Commerce Committee on the technical problems that have plagued the...
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You won’t love these McSubsidies:Taxpayers will shell out $1.2 billion this...
Let us all now bow before the god of free enterprise, whose awesomeness was revealed in a recent news release announcing that the divine managers of fast-food deity McDonald’s achieved a profit of...
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Grand bargain or raw deal? Many elderly
Many elderly Americans are close enough to poverty’s edge that Social Security cuts of any size could push them over the brink. Following the government shutdown drama, politicians in Washington...
View ArticleCornyn Tops Senate
As partisan polarization proliferates in the nation’s capital, Sen. John Cornyn appears to have found a way to cut through the rancor. The senior Texas Republican marshaled eight bills into law over...
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