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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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Oklahoma Governor Stops National Guard from Processing Same-Sex Benefits
Oklahoma now joins Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana as the only states that have publicly said they will limit how and where such couples can register for benefits, despite a recent Pentagon directive that gay couples be treated equally.
September 18, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Christie Criticized for Plan to Give Sandy Money to Seaside Fire Recovery
Gov. Christie's plan to redirect $15 million in federal Sandy aid to another tragedy - the fire last week on the Seaside boardwalk - is vague on eligibility requirements, and is drawing criticism from both the left and the right.
September 18, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Christie Vows to Appeal Sports Betting Ruling to U.S. Supreme Court
The federal appeals court in Philadelphia handed down a 2-1 ruling today that New Jersey could not implement sports betting because the state’s new law conflicts with a federal statute that bans it in all but four states: Nevada, Delaware, Montana and Oregon.
September 18, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Archive
D.C. Council Fails to Override 'Living Wage' Veto
The D.C. Council failed Tuesday to overturn a mayoral veto of a hotly contested measure requiring the city’s largest retailers to pay their workers no less than 50 percent more than the current minimum wage.
September 18, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Virginia Law Prevented Sale of Assault Rifle to Navy Yard Shooter Last Week
The suspect in the killing of 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday test-fired an AR-15 assault rifle at a Virginia gun store last week but was stopped from buying one because state law there prohibits the sale of such weapons to out-of-state buyers, according to two senior law enforcement officials.
September 18, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Uninsured Population Declines as Medicaid Population Grows
The rate of uninsured Americans dropped slightly for the second consecutive year in 2012, from 15.7 percent to 15.4 percent, largely a result of more people enrolling in Medicare and Medicaid, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday.
September 18, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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HHS: Many Obamacare Premiums to Cost Less Than $100
More than half of uninsured Americans will have health care options under Obamacare that cost less than $100 a month, according to an analysis released Tuesday by the Department of Health and Human Services.
September 18, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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States Address Chronic Absenteeism in Schools
Until recently, schools mostly looked at the student body’s overall attendance rate and the truancy—or unexcused absences—of individual students. Now a growing number of states and school districts are increasing their focus on students who are “chronically absent” from school—whether the absences are excused or unexcused.
September 17, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
49%
The portion of uninsured people who qualify for coverage under the Medicaid expansion that are smokers, while only 38 percent of current Medicaid recipients are smokers. Maine Gov. Paul LePage cites these statistics as a reason to not expand the low-income health insurance program.
September 17, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
The federal government has all the money, the states have all the power, the local governments have all the problems.
Washington, D.C., Chief Financial Officer Natwar Gandhi, at Governing's Cost of Government Summit.
September 17, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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