why you ve seen inflation in higher education just eclipse anything, even health carries minor the amount of inflation compared to higher ed. clearly it is economics 101. that if you give people the money to pay almost any price, the people who are charging it will charge more. gregg: what s astonishing, tuition actually has very little to do with real actual costs and the reason i know this is, i read your study at the cato institute. i want to put it up on the screen here. here is college tuition, undergraduate, residential, includes room and board. the average cost to educate is roughly $8,000 per year but you found that the average college bill is roughly $37,000 for private schools, 16,000 for public. neil, colleges can raise tuition with impunity, because they know they re going to get paid no matter what, right? yeah, ultimately that s what
own. martha: ups is not alone in this. many employers fear they will not be able to afford it. some saying they still don t know what s in the law. this is years after it was signed into law and nancy pelosi famously said this. we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it away from the fog of the controversy. martha: the truth is, we are still finding out what s in it, stuart. companies are still scratching their heads saying we re not really sure how this will affect us and what it will cost us. stuart is the host of varney & company on the fox business network. what do you make of this latest news? it is changing the work place profoundly. it is hurting lower paid people in particular. three out of four new jobs created to the household survey are part-time. that s the big shift in the work place. an now we ve got cities, towns and states all across-country going to more part-time work as opposed to full-time work, because of, here comes obamacare.
0 know that 16 months from now they must provide health care to their employees. therefore, they re moving towards far more part-time work, that is less than 30 hours a week. if you got part-time employees, you don t have to provide health insurance for them. they go on to these exchanges. that takes the cost away from the employer and puts it on to either the government or the individual. they re scrambling to do that, en masse before that deadline arrives. martha: stuart, thank you. thanks very much. we ll see you later. yes, you will. gregg: these workers are calling themselves the 29ers, for 29 hours. you have to get under 30. so people are losing money over this and the roughead lines for obamacare, they keep on piling up. take a look at this. back in may the associated press, wrote, like your health care policy? you may be losing it. july third, another ap headline read, delay in the so-called employer mandate stirs broader worries about obama health law. and, just over a week
0 vladimir putin said snowden could stay in russia only if he stopped leaking classified documents about u.s. surveillance programs. even putin, a former kgb officer, saw the irony. translator: if he wishes to stay here, we have one condition. he must stop his work aimed at harming our american partners. reporter: the documents benefit china and russia the most, putin claims the former contractor is not helping moscow. translator: mr. snowden is not our agent, he never was and today is not. our special services have never worked with him and don t work with him. reporter: earlier today, mr. obama portrayed talks in washington and moscow as productive, even moving the right direction. there have been high level discussions with the russians about trying to find a solution to the problem. reporter: publishing once secret documents, britain s guardian says they targeted missions. secretary of state kerry played down ramifications, adding he is working with europe s chief represe
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