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Whatever your opinion of Obamacare, there’s no denying that its full implementation next year presents a major challenge for many businesses across the country. Starting in 2014, firms of more than 50 employees will be required to offer health insurance to their full-time employees — defined as those that work more than 30 hours per week — or pay a penalty. These expenses, along with added costs of complying with the law, will force many businesses to raise prices or reduce profit margins, two things business leaders never enjoy doing. While these mandates will increase costs for many businesses across...

Temp agencies are taking advantage of illegals across the country. Iridium Industries in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania is a plastic-container plant. During a raid at the plant, 81 illegal immigrants were arrested by ICE. The plant itself wasn’t charged in connection with the raid, though-because the plant blamed the Temp Agency for the illegals in their plant. In court papers, it was stated that H&T Staffing Services, operating under that and other, similar names in Pennsylvania, fraudulently raked in nearly $2.5 million in one year. In this article at the Pocono Record from October, 2009, we find that in Pennsylvania- People...