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Transparency is essential to effective policy making and is the cornerstone of earning stakeholder trust. When people understand the reasoning behind a policy, they are much more likely to accept the final outcome, even if it does not align with their individual preference.
Kansas has long been a critical player in the Heartland, but its recent job performance reveals progress and potential pitfalls.
As of September 2024, Kansas’ unemployment rate sits at 3.3 percent, up from 2.6 percent the prior year, signaling a tightening labor market despite steady job growth. Over the last twelve months, Kansas added around 19,000 jobs, reflecting a 1.3 percent increase in nonfarm employment.
It’s a little early for Advent, but I’ve been thinking about the idea of the Promised One coming to deliver Israel. We’ll first survey some religious facts, then their historical background, and finally look at scripture surrounding Jesus the King.
In the world today, three of the four largest religions are Christianity, with 2.2 billion people; Islam with 1.6 billion; and Buddhism with .5 billion. All of these are universal or global, which seek to increase their membership through conversion. The other large religion, Hinduism with 1 billion people, is ethnic, closely tied to family and region. Hinduism was founded in the populous region of South Asia, and from it Buddhism originated and spread throughout East and Southeast Asia.
Most people over a certain age are familiar with going in for a colonoscopy, a routine method of screening for and preventing colon cancer. What they might not know is that the cost of the procedure can vary wildly depending on where they get it done.
The problem is that Medicare -- the taxpayer-funded health insurer for Americans 65 and above -- pays hospitals significantly more for common procedures than it pays physicians in private practices or ambulatory surgery centers.
I’ve spent a lot of time in the cabs of tractors this month as we continue our marathon of fall harvest.
Spending so much time operating the grain cart during fall harvest has allowed me ample time to get caught up on podcasts, opportunities to start and end new audiobooks, and hear the latest songs on the radio over and over and over again.
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