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Caroline Cournoyer

Senior Web Editor

Caroline Cournoyer -- Senior Web Editor. Caroline covered federal policy and politics for CongressNow, the former legislative wire service for Roll Call, has written for Education Week's Teacher Magazine, and learned the ins and outs of state and local government while working as an assistant editor at WTOP Radio.

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Trump to End Obamacare Subsidies, Raising Fears of Skyrocketing Premiums
The federal government will cease crucial federal payments to health insurers that provide coverage to low-income Americans, the White House announced late Thursday in a move that threatens to send health insurance premiums skyrocketing for millions of Americans and destabilize markets across the country.
October 13, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
Most of the folks that I either get to represent ... are more focused on what’s going to happen next month with my day care or my job than they are [the 2020 presidential election]. I think it’s pretty darn early to be handicapping who’s where.
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, one of the many Democrats being floated as a possible candidate for president in 2020.
October 12, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
$6 million
Average monthly tax revenue that North Dakota has received from the Dakota Access Pipeline.
October 12, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Massachusetts to Train Social Workers to Handle Opioid Addicts
Gov. Charlie Baker has unveiled what he's calling a "first-in-the-nation set of educational core principles" for social workers on the front lines of the battle against opioid abuse, which has claimed thousands of lives in Massachusetts.
October 12, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Trump to Sign Health-Care Order That Some Say 'Would Kill the [Obamacare] Market'
President Donald Trump is trying to do with the stroke of a pen what Republicans in Congress could not — bring about the end of the Obamacare markets.
October 12, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Smoke From Wine Country Wildfires Sickens People 100 Miles Away
A series of deadly California wildfires have burned through some 170,000 acres statewide, but heavy smoke from the disaster zones drifted farther still as pesky particles of dust, ash and soot entered the lungs of residents nearly 100 miles away.
October 12, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Courts Ignore the Law, and South Carolina’s Poor Go to Jail
Larry Marsh has a history of mental illness and drug addiction. Homeless, he has no place to go. The police in this city have arrested or cited him more than 270 times for trespassing. In December, they got him four times in one day.
October 12, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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U.S. Supreme Court's Refusal of Kentucky Case a Win for Foster Relatives
In a sweeping victory for the growing number of Kentucky relatives providing free foster care for children, Kentucky must begin paying them — many, grandparents struggling with the costs — the same as they do licensed foster families.
October 12, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Trump's Threats to End Obamacare Subsidies Now Costing Taxpayers More
California's health exchange said Wednesday it has ordered insurers to add a surcharge to certain policies next year because the Trump administration has yet to commit to paying a key set of consumer subsidies under the Affordable Care Act.
October 12, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Criminal Record? Horrible Work History? Florida's Juvenile Justice System Will Still Hire You.
On the surface, Sara Erin Martin would have seemed well qualified to oversee troubled teens at the Okeechobee Youth Development Center. For three years, she'd worked as a mental health technician at a state psychiatric hospital for adult inmates whose mental illnesses or intellectual disabilities rendered them unfit to be tried or punished.
October 12, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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