Cost Plus World Market® (www.worldmarket.com) wants to send you home for the holidays! As a way to give back to its customers, the specialty retailer has launched its annual “Share the Joy” contest now through November 30, 2016. This year’s contest will send four lucky winners to see and spend ... Read More »
Republicans in Congress have been calling for the repeal of Obamacare since it passed in 2010. With control of both houses of Congress and the presidency, they may finally get their chance to undo huge, consequential parts of the health law next year. If they succeed, about 22 million fewer ... Read More »
Kaiser Health News Throughout the campaign, President-Elect Donald Trump’s entire health message consisted of promising to repeal the Affordable Care Act. That remains difficult with Democrats still commanding enough power in the Senate to block the 60 votes needed for a full repeal. Republicans could use fast-track budget authority to ... Read More »
The future of public health in the United States was a hotly contested topic during the 2016 election, with the presidential candidates making bold promises and several important ballot initiatives up for grabs. Here’s how America voted, and what a Trump presidency means to your health. Donald Trump’s stunning upset ... Read More »
Donald Trump’s surprise win as president in the US will give an unwelcoming message to international students. It will hurt the attractiveness of the US as the most preferred destination of choice. It’s an opinion, however, that many disagree with. Dr Rahul Choudaha, co-founder, interEDGE.org, a US-based firm specialising in ... Read More »
If you work in education policy, you maybe should have seen Donald Trump’s monumental upset coming. I didn’t, and I would guess most other wonks didn’t either. But we all saw populist frustration boil over with the federally coerced Common Core national curriculum standards. Average Americans rejected the Core over ... Read More »
Donald Trump was elected 45th President of the United States of America early Wednesday morning, in what is being called one of the most stunning upsets in political history. Education policy was largely a second-tier issue during his campaign, which focused instead on issues like national security, trade, and Hillary ... Read More »
Government think tank Niti Aayog has organised the first regional workshop on School Education Quality Index (SEQI) to improve the learning outcomes among school children, the Aayog said today. The workshops on SEQI, organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD), saw striking evidence on factors that ... Read More »
China’s exports and imports fell more than expected in October, with weak domestic and global demand adding to doubts that a pick-up in economic activity in the world’s largest trading nation can be sustained. October exports fell 7.3 percent from a year earlier, while imports shrank 1.4 percent, official data ... Read More »
India’s gold demand could fall as much as 24 percent in 2016 to the lowest level in seven years due to higher prices and increased smuggling as the government seeks to bring transparency to bullion purchases, the World Gold Council (WGC) said. Lower demand from the world’s No.2 gold consumer ... Read More »
Falling consumer demand and a halving of central bank purchases resulted in a 10 percent drop in gold buying in the third quarter, data from the World Gold Council showed on Tuesday, despite a rise in investment. Added to a 4 percent rise in supply, that pushed the overall quarterly ... Read More »
So picture this scenario: You plug in your phone at the end of the night, it takes all night to charge up to 100% but by lunch the next day it’s already at 3%. So frustrating, right? Well, here’s a solution to this annoying problem. It’s called Yukuma. Yukuma has ... Read More »
