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PODCAST: What can brown take from you?

Mark Garrison Aug 22, 2013
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Mid-day Update

PODCAST: What can brown take from you?

Mark Garrison Aug 22, 2013
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It’s a common scenario. You and your spouse have jobs that offer health insurance. You both pick the better one. Well, UPS says they’ve got to cut that perk for about 15,000 UPS spouses who are covered by their own employer. UPS blames the Affordable Care Act.

A key summit of economists in Jackson Hole, Wyo., may shed more light on the Fed’s plan to taper its stimulus policies.

And as the gap between the numbers female and male college students widens, a football program can increase the numbers of men on campus.

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