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Military survivor benefits should reflect ongoing needs of families

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Serving in the military is a noble commitment that touches more than just troops, as the daily realities of deployments, relocations and the uncertainty of the profession itself also transcend to their families. In truth, spouses, parents and children adjust their lives around these demands — learning to manage households, careers and schooling while their loved one is away. Even when veterans return home, their households may still face new challenges, particularly if they develop toxic-related health conditions that may require ongoing care. As these responsibilities accumulate, ...

Military survivor benefits should reflect ongoing needs of families

Editorials

Serving in the military is a noble commitment that touches more than just troops, as the daily realities of deployments, relocations and the uncertainty of the profession itself also transcend to their families. In truth, spouses, parents and children adjust their lives around these demands — learning to manage households, careers and schooling while their loved one is away. Even when veterans return home, their households may still face new challenges, particularly if they develop toxic-related health conditions that may require ongoing care. As these responsibilities accumulate, ...

Case should now be closed on abortion pill

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The Supreme Court has just restored a woman’s ability to obtain the abortion pill by mail without first seeing a medical provider, at least for now. A lower court had tried to tighten that easy access by requiring patients to consult with a licensed clinician in person before acquiring the drug, mifepristone. The Charlotte Lozier Institute is an anti-abortion organization that purports to provide scientific research for the pro-life movement. Among the risks of loosening restrictions on being given the abortion pill, it writes, is that it enables fathers who don’t want a child to ...

Which credentials will be most useful for young people?

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Ohio has done an excellent job supporting high school students looking to get a jump on future careers by offering and incentivizing industry credentials through career-technical education. But a recent analysis suggests some credentials may be worth more to students than others. The Fordham Institute looked at career clusters in which credentials are offered. Wage returns seven years after high school were measured for each. While health, business, agriculture, engineering, law/public safety, construction, transportation and manufacturing all yielded positive results; the arts, human ...

Why won’t former President Obama ever go away?

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In 1921, Woodrow Wilson, the first of America’s four transformative progressive presidents, became the first president to remain in Washington and make the nation’s capital his permanent home after leaving office. In very mild defense of the man who did more than any other to establish the administrative state and thus pervert America’s carefully constructed constitutional design, Wilson had suffered a debilitating stroke two years prior that left him partially paralyzed and nearly blind. He died just a few years later, in 1924. Barack Obama, the nation’s fourth transformative ...

Who is monitoring the debt?

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People of a certain age will recall a lyric from the Tennessee Ernie Ford song “Sixteen Tons”: “Another day older and deeper in debt.” I thought of that song as Secretary of War Pete Hegseth asked Congress to approve a $1.5 trillion budget for fiscal year 2027 to put the military on what he called a “wartime footing.” Hegseth says the Pentagon needs the money for more drones, munitions and modernized systems. Though President Trump has denied it, bragging that we have the strongest military in the world, it would appear that the Iran conflict has significantly depleted ...