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        "title": "PPACA to provide tax subsidies to help poor and middle-class",
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        "prettyDate": "July 06, 2015",
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        "summary": "On Thursday, June 25, the Supreme Court handed down one of its most momentous decisions for employers in years. In simple terms, "Burwell" (Obamacare) won, and "King" (the plaintiffs) lost.",
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        "title": "ERISA audits problematic for small businesses",
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        "prettyDate": "June 29, 2015",
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        "summary": "The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) is a federal law that sets minimum standards for most voluntarily-established pension and health plans in private industry. It is in place to provide protection for individuals who participate in these plans.",
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        "uri": "/2015/06/22/small-business-and-their-growing-frustration-with/",
        "title": "Small business and their growing frustration with PPACA",
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        "prettyDate": "June 22, 2015",
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        "summary": ""I have owned businesses for decades and never in my life have I experienced so much anger and frustration as with Obamacare." So said Dr. Joseph P. Sergio, president of Sergio Corporation (South Bend, Indiana), in June 3 testimony in front of the Congressional Joint Economic Committee's hearing "Examining the...",
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        "uri": "/2015/06/15/the-impact-of-ppacas-tax-policy-on-business/",
        "title": "The impact of PPACA's tax policy on business",
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        "prettyDate": "June 15, 2015",
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        "summary": "One feature of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) that didn't receive much attention when the PPACA first went into effect in 2010, but that is now becoming of significant concern to most employers, unions, and employees, is the \"Cadillac tax.\"",
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        "uri": "/2015/06/08/ppaca-mandated-state-insurance-exchanges-strugglin/",
        "title": "PPACA mandated state insurance exchanges struggling",
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        "prettyDate": "June 08, 2015",
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        "summary": "A number of state-run PPACA health insurance exchanges have been struggling over the last year-plus. In fact, state-run health insurance exchanges in Oregon, Maryland, New Mexico, and Nevada have either permanently shut down their operations or have done so temporarily and are contemplating some attempts to relaunch them. Colorado, Minnesota...",
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        "uri": "/2015/06/01/small-business-owners-financial-concerns/",
        "title": "Small business owners' financial concerns",
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        "prettyDate": "June 01, 2015",
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        "summary": "Three recent surveys of small business owners find that, while they are generally optimistic about the future in many respects, they still have a number of serious concerns.",
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        "uri": "/2015/05/27/ppacas-cost-impact-on-employers/",
        "title": "PPACA's cost impact on employers",
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        "prettyDate": "May 27, 2015",
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        "summary": "The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has brought increased health care costs to many employers, especially small employers. A recent survey finds that the majority of organizations believe that the largest cost increases are yet to come.",
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        "uri": "/2015/05/26/retail-theft-a-growing-problem-for-small-business/",
        "title": "Retail theft: a growing problem for small business",
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        "prettyDate": "May 26, 2015",
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        "summary": "While retail theft, as a result of external activity (shoplifting and supplier/vendor fraud) and internal activity (employee theft), has always been a problem for small businesses, the problem is growing.",
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        "uri": "/2015/05/18/the-tax-burden-on-small-businesses/",
        "title": "The tax burden on small businesses",
        "byline": "William Atkinson",
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        "prettyDate": "May 18, 2015",
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        "summary": "The average small business must devote 24 hours and pay more than $400 just to prepare and pay its federal taxes, not including the taxes themselves. \"That cost is the result of the bewildering complexity in an IRS Code that has grown from 30,000 pages in 1986, the last time...",
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        "uri": "/2015/05/11/fcc-vote-on-internet-is-problematic-for-small-busi/",
        "title": "FCC vote on Internet is problematic for small businesses",
        "byline": " William Atkinson ",
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        "prettyDate": "May 11, 2015",
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        "summary": "According to a recent press release posted by the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council) in late February, a nonpartisan advocacy, research and education organization focused on protecting small business and fostering entrepreneurship, "The vote by three members of the FCC to regulate the Internet with archaic public utility...",
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