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For health-care reform to cut the deficit, it doesn’t need to undo the “doc fix” — the continued easing of Congressional curbs on Medicare payments to doctors. It just needs to improve upon the status quo.

About half of the world’s countries currently have some sort of quota for women in their national legislatures, but women are still a small minority in nearly every national parliament around the globe.

Across the industrialized world, the typical full-time male worker earns 17.6 percent more than his female counterpart.

Job openings rose in January, according to a new Labor Department report. The job openings rate was highest in education and health services.

Heidi Montag joins the fight.

Thanks to lobbying, Congress chooses to subsidize foods that we’re supposed to eat least of.

An economist responds to readers’ comments and questions about his post on how frequently medical service providers try to defraud the government.

Will Atlanta remain a growing economic force, an economist asks, or will the housing downturn turn it into a place that might have been?

Profile of Timothy Geithner, and other links from around the Web.

A company gets paid to dump other people’s significant others.

In honor of International Women’s Day, an economist looks at ways to measure which countries do best by women, and why.

Older workers are less likely to be unemployed than younger workers. But when they do lose their jobs, they’re likely to be out of work much longer.

Older workers are less likely to be unemployed than younger workers. But when they do lose their jobs, they’re likely to be out of work much longer.

How high unemployment has helped control the flu outbreak, and other links from around the Web.

How high unemployment has helped control the flu outbreak, and other links from around the Web.