The News: Speed Read ~ 12.02.13 After intense scrutiny over the failures of the healthcare.gov website weekend updates are said to have made the site capable of handling traffic loads of 50,000 users at once. In an interview with ABC News President Obama said he still believes the Affordable Care Act will make good on his promise to deliver affordable health care to Americans. So far 106,000 people have signed up for coverage since enrollment began, although the Obama administration anticipated 500,000 at this point in time. // Retailers are feeling the crunch of a recovering economy as many began Black Friday shopping deals on Thanksgiving hoping to incite spending. The National Retail Federation released a report Sunday afternoon showing a record 141 million people shopping in stores and online between Thursday and Sunday, spending $57.4 billion, a 2.9% drop from last year, averaging $407 per shopper, a drop of 3.9% from last year. // Various labor unions, worker advocacy groups and some Democrats have organized a fast food worker strike Thursday, December 5, in 100 cities where workers will walk off their job in protest of low wages. The campaign for a national increase of the federal minimum wage began approximately one year ago. Currently minimum wage stands at $7.25 an hour, or about $15,000 a year. // A new study published in the journal Science shows that a by-product of cholesterol can fuel the deadly growth and spread of breast cancer. While obesity is commonly linked with many cancers, a team at Duke University Medical Center showed that cholesterol, which is broken down by the body into a metabolite known as 27HC, can cause tumors and feeds human breast cancer tissue. // In local news thousands of blacktip and spinner sharks will swim to south Florida in the next few weeks in an annual migration that may cause some beach closures. The peak of the migration is late January and early February, with sharks getting as close as 20 feet off the beach.
Posted on: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 18:42:29 +0000
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