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Rather than deal with the artificially inflated costs of health insurance in the United States, some companies are paying employees to take “medical vacations” to another country where procedures are cheaper.

America’s massive trade deficit is the biggest factor contributing to the nation’s high and persistent unemployment rate, according to University of Maryland economist Pete Morici.

States struggling to balance their budgets and considering lay offs of public employees are expected to receive a measure of relief Tuesday as House lawmakers are expected to pass a state aid bill designed to save hundreds of thousands of jobs.

The U.S. is currently far behind the manufacturing capabilities of the rest of the world, we need to do everything in our power to catch up or we will reserve ourselves to the history books as yet another country destroyed by its economic policies.

American workers scored a big victory last week as the U.S. Senate passed a bill increasing fees for skilled-worker visas, which are used by Indian technology companies to send workers to the U.S.