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?7 Habits to Prevent Hearing Loss for an Adult Living in Maryland

An adult living in Maryland should follow these 7 steps(ARA) ? Hearing loss is common, but the perception that hearing loss is only caused by aging is incorrect. More than 36 million Americans have hearing loss. Changing lifestyle habits, and treating a variety of health conditions can help to prevent hearing loss. For an adult living in Maryland, now is as good a time as any to change some habits.

Seven healthy habits may help prevent or delay the onset of hearing loss:

1. Noise

Noise-induced hearing loss is the most common yet preventable cause of hearing loss. Exposure to dangerous levels of noise can occur at work, home and in many recreational activities. Wear ear plugs or muffs when operating loud equipment (i.e., lawn mowers, power saws, leaf blower, etc.) or when using firearms. Buy quieter products (compare dB ratings advertised on the products ? the smaller the better).

2. iPod/MP3 Players

Listening to MP3 players at dangerous levels can cause permanent hearing loss. You can download apps to ensure noise exposure through your iPod does not exceed dangerous decibel levels. ?Volume Limit? is a switch in the ?settings? section of your iPhone or iPod to make sure that your hearing is protected. This allows you to set a maximum level for the volume output of the media player and even put a 4-digit code on it to keep it fixed.

3. Diabetes

The National Institute of Health (NIH) has found that hearing loss is twice as common in people with diabetes. Furthermore, of the 79 million adults with pre-diabetes, the rate of hearing loss is 30 percent higher than in those with normal blood sugar levels. Moderate weight loss, eating healthy and exercise can delay or prevent type 2 diabetes among adults at-risk for diabetes.

4. Smoking

Smoking is a risk factor for hearing loss. Smokers are nearly 70 percent more likely than nonsmokers to suffer hearing loss. Exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke almost doubles the risk of hearing loss among adolescents. Studies show that smoking, age and noise exposure together increase the risk for hearing loss more than each of these factors alone.

5. Cardiovascular disease

Not only does exercise help to prevent type 2 diabetes, but cardiovascular health and hearing health appear associated. Growing evidence suggests a link between hearing loss and poor cardiovascular health.

6. Earwax (Cerumen)

Don?t swab your ear canals. Cerumen cleans and lubricates the skin of the ear canal and provides protection from bacteria, fungi, insects and water. Attempting to remove cerumen or cleaning the ear canal with a cotton swab tends to push earwax deeper into the ear canal. Excess or impacted cerumen can press against the eardrum and/or occlude the external auditory canal resulting in hearing loss.

7. See an audiologist

Susceptibility to hearing loss is often undiagnosed and unrecognized. The Audiology Awareness Campaign, a nonprofit foundation aimed at providing the public with information on hearing loss, is sponsoring the fifth annual Listen Up America Week, National Hearing Screening Week, May 14 to 18, where audiologists will offer free hearing screenings nationwide. Call 888-833-EARS (3277) or visit www.audiologyawareness.com to find an audiologist in your area.

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VatorNews - Social gaming platform Heyzap raises $4.3 million

Social gaming company Heyzap?has raised $4.3 million, according to a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The company had previously raised $3.65 million from Union Square Ventures, Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant, bringing its total raised to just under $8 million total.

It is unclear from the filing who invested the money, but TechCrunch is reporting that the money came from existing investor Union Square Ventures, and new investor Qualcomm. VatorNews reached out to Heyzap for more information, but it could not be reached for comment.

Founded in 2008 by?Jude Gomila?and?Immad Akhund, the San Francisco-based social discovery platform?graduated from Y Combinator in 2009. The company provides users with a way to check-in to their favorite games, discover new games and find a community of gamers. It allows users to let other gamers know what they are playing, leave or find tips for their favorite games and earn badges.

Heyzap currently partners with over 2,000 developers on iOS and Android, including PocketGems, Spacetime Studios, Animoca and Digital Chocolate, and currently has 9 million users.

The news was first reported by The Next Web on Friday.

The fall of Zynga

With the fall of?Zynga?in 2012, there is a big opening in the social gaming world, and Heyzap is no doubt looking to be the company to fill it.

In October, Zynga released a statement saying that it was?lowering its outlook?based on disappointing preliminary third-quarter results. Due to Zynga?s weak performance, JP Morgan analyst Doug Anmuth lowered his estimates for Facebook?s payments revenue in 2013 to $582 million from $797 million, based on how much of its revenue would be coming from Zynga.

It was just the latest step in the declining relationship between the two companies, which had seen its once mutually beneficially partnership crumble as Zynga?s games became less popular, and the company became more dependant on Facebook for revenue, even as the amount of revenue Facebook was getting from Zynga was declining.

Then, finally, in November, Zynga and Facebook?filed documents?with the SEC to loosen the relationship between the two companies.

According to the documents, Zynga will no longer be obligated to?display Facebook ads, or use Facebook credits in its games on its own platform. Any games offered on its platform, or other platforms, will still have to be offered on Facebook too, though there are some exceptions regarding real-money gambling games, mobile games and games launched in China or Japan.

The lessons from Zynga

Of course, other social gaming companies will have to take some of the lessons from Zynga if they want to succeed.

"Zynga made a bet to only develop on Facebook,"?Deven?Parekh, of?Insight Partners recently?told me. "It was a risky strategy."?And one that ultimately cost the company big time, once the relationship between the two fell apart.

In addition, he said, Zynga did not create games with long lifecycles. "They did not hold interest, they weren't deep," he said, and so casual gamers eventually fled.

In the coming year, other companies, such as Kixeye and Heyzap, will be able to grow better by doing the opposite of what Zynga did.

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Source: http://vator.tv/news/2013-01-05-social-gaming-platform-heyzap-raises-43-million

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Assad to make rare speech as Syrian rebels draw nearer

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will deliver a rare speech on Sunday about the uprising against his rule, which has killed 60,000 people and brought civil war to the edge of his capital.

With insurgents fighting their way closer to the seat of his power, state media said in a statement that Assad would speak on Sunday morning about the "latest developments in Syria and the region", without giving details.

It will be the 47-year-old leader's first speech in months and his first public comments since he dismissed suggestions that he might go into exile to end the civil war, telling Russian television in November that he would "live and die" in Syria.

Insurgents are venturing ever closer into Damascus after bringing a crescent of suburbs under their control from the city's eastern outskirts to the southwest.

Assad's forces blasted rockets into the Jobar neighbourhood near the city centre on Saturday to try to drive out rebel fighters, a day after bombarding rebel-held areas in the eastern suburb of Daraya.

"The shelling began in the early hours of the morning, it has intensified since 11 a.m., and now it has become really heavy. Yesterday it was Daraya and today Jobar is the hottest spot in Damascus," an activist named Housam said by Skype from the capital.

Since Assad's last public comments, in November, rebels have strengthened their hold on swathes of territory across northern Syria, launched an offensive in the central province of Hama and endured weeks of bombardment by Assad's forces trying to dislodge them from Damascus's outer neighbourhoods.

Syria's political opposition has also won widespread international recognition. But Assad has continued to rely on support from Russia, China and Iran to hold firm and has used his air power to blunt rebel gains on the ground.

With the conflict showing no sign of abating, Syria's deputy foreign minister visited Iran on Saturday to seek to maintain the support of Assad's main ally in the region.

Iran's Fars news agency said Faisal al-Makdad would meet President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other Iranian officials.

MISSILE BATTERIES

Despite the estimated death toll of 60,000 announced by the United Nations earlier this week - a figure sharply higher than that given by activists - the West has shown little appetite for intervening against Assad in the way that NATO forces supported rebels who overthrew Libya's Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

But NATO is sending U.S. and European Patriot surface-to-air missile batteries to the Turkish-Syrian border.

The United States military said U.S. troops and equipment had begun arriving in Turkey on Friday for the deployment. Germany and the Netherlands are also sending Patriot batteries, which will take weeks to deploy fully.

Turkey and NATO say the missiles are a safeguard to protect southern Turkey from possible Syrian missile strikes. Syria and allies Russia and Iran say the deployments could spark an eventual military action by the Western alliance.

Syria's war has proved the longest and bloodiest of the conflicts that arose out of popular uprisings in Arab countries over the past two years and led to the downfall of autocratic regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen.

The war pits rebels mainly drawn from the Sunni Muslim majority against Assad, a member of the Shi'ite-derived Alawite minority sect, whose family has ruled Syria since his father seized power in a coup in 1970.

Syria's SANA state news agency said a journalist, Suheil al-Ali from the pro-government Addouniya TV, had died of wounds sustained in an attack by terrorists, the term government media use to refer to rebels. Syria was by far the most dangerous country for journalists last year, with 28 killed.

The opposition-linked Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the conflict from Britain through a network of activists on the ground, reported fighting and shelling on Saturday in the eastern Euphrates River town of Deir al-Zor and near the central city of Hama, as well as near Damascus.

Assad's last formal speech was delivered to parliament seven months ago, in early June. "If we work together," he said, "I confirm that the end to this situation is near."

(Editing by Roger Atwood)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/assad-rare-speech-syrian-rebels-draw-nearer-024003266.html

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Handset makers scurry to join Year of the Phablet

SINGAPORE/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Call it phablet, phonelet, tweener or super smartphone, but the clunky mobile phone - closer in size to a tablet than the smartphone of a couple of years back - is here to stay.

A surprise hit of 2012, it is drawing in more users, more handset makers and is shaping the way we consume content.

"We expect 2013 to be the year of the phablet," said Neil Mawston, UK-based executive director of Strategy Analytics' global wireless practice.

While Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has blazed a trail with its once-mocked Galaxy Note devices, now other manufacturers are scurrying to catch up.

At this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Chinese telecommunications giants ZTE Corp and Huawei Technologies Co Ltd will launch their own.

ZTE, which collaborated with Italy's designer Stefano Giovannoni for the Nubia phablet, is scheduled to launch its 5-inch Grand S, while Huawei brings out the Ascend Mate, sporting a whopping 6.1-inch screen, making it only slightly smaller than Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet.

"Users have realized that a nearly 5-inch screen smartphone isn't such a cumbersome device," said Joshua Flood, senior analyst at ABI Research in Britain.

Driving the phablet's shift to the mainstream is a confluence of trends. Users prefer larger screens because they are consuming more visual content on mobile devices than before, and using them less for voice calls - the phablet's weak spot.

And as WiFi-only tablets become more popular, so has interest among commuters in devices that combine the best of both, while on the move.

According to the latest Ericsson Mobility Report, the monthly data traffic for every smartphone will rise fourfold between now and 2018 to 1,900 megabytes.

The upshot is a market for phablets that will quadruple in value to $135 billion in three years, according to Barclays. Shipments of gadgets that are 5 inches or bigger in screen size will surge by nearly nine-fold to 228 million during the same period, though estimates vary because no one can agree on where smartphones stop and phablets start.

But that's the point, some say.

"I think phone size was a preconceived notion based on voice usage," said John Berns, a Singapore-based executive who works in the information technology industry. He recently upgraded his Note for the newer Note 2 and bought another for his girlfriend for Christmas. "Smaller was better until phones got smart, became visual."

Samsung has been both the engine and beneficiary. While other players shipped devices with larger screens earlier - Dell Inc launched its Streak in 2010 - it was only when the Korean behemoth launched the Galaxy Note in late 2011, with its 5.3-inch screen, that users took an interest.

"The Streak was launched at a time when 3-inch smartphones were standard and the leap to a 5-inch Streak was a jump too far for consumers," says Strategy Analytics' Mawston.

"The Galaxy Note was launched when 4-inch smartphones had become commonplace, and the leap to 5-inch was no longer such a chasm."

THE BIGGER, THE BETTER

Since then Samsung has bet big on bigger: its updated Note has a 5.5-inch screen and its flagship Galaxy S3 - the best-selling smartphone in the third quarter of 2012 - has a screen that puts it in the phablet category for some analysts.

Samsung accounted for around three quarters of all phablets shipped last year, according to Barclays' Taipei-based analyst Dale Gai.

Samsung's marketing heft has paved the way for others. LG Electronics Inc accounted for 14 percent of shipments in the third quarter of last year, according to Strategy Analytics.

HTC Corp's 5-inch Butterfly - called the Droid DNA in the United States - has been selling well in places where Samsung is less dominant, according to Taipei-based Yuanta Securities analyst Dennis Chan. The first batch sold out soon after its December launch in Taiwan.

"I don't think we can say that Samsung invented phablets," said Lv Qianhao, head of handset strategy at ZTE. "But it did do a lot to promote this product category, which helped create tremendous demand."

Phablets are also proving popular in emerging markets.

A poll of nearly 5,000 readers of Yahoo's Indonesian website chose Samsung's Galaxy Note 2 as their favorite mobile phone of 2012, ahead of the iPhone 5.

Kristian Tjahjono, a technology journalist who posted the poll, said phablets were a natural fit for Indonesians who liked tablets but also liked making phone calls.

But while those in such markets who can afford them are going for the high-end devices, the door is opening for cheaper models. Tjahjono pointed to Lenovo's 5-inch S880, which has a lower resolution screen and sells for about $250, which is around a third of the price of Galaxy Note 2.

SWEET SPOT

Falling component prices will add to demand. The total cost of an upper-end phablet, its bill of materials, will likely fall to 2,000 yuan ($323) this year, says Gai from Barclays, and will halve within two years.

"One thousand yuan is a very sweet spot for China," he said.

India is also a fan.

Vivek Deshpande, who manages global strategy for Shenzhen-based mobile phone maker Zopo, says that while the Indian and Chinese markets are different, they both share a common appetite for aspirational devices: phones big enough for their owners to show off. This is changing the direction of lower end players.

"Zopo's primary focus is now on phablets," said Deshpande.

Even Samsung is pushing its own creation downmarket: In Las Vegas it will unveil the Galaxy Grand, a 5-inch device that lacks some of the resolution and muscle of its bigger brethren but will be aimed at markets like India. There is a version offering a dual SIM slot, a popular feature for those wanting to arbitrage cheaper call and data plans.

As phablets slide into the mainstream, handset makers are trying to find ways of differentiating.

As well as hiring Italian designer Giovannoni better known for his minimalist, sleek bathrooms, ZTE also came up with an onscreen keypad that inclines to one side of the screen, depending on whether the user is left- or right-handed.

Samsung, however, not only has first mover advantage, it can also build on its expertise in display.

Barclay's Gai says Samsung is expected to introduce a thinner, unbreakable AMOLED screen which will leave room for bigger batteries.

"That will put Samsung in good stead to still dominate the market," he said. Despite pressure in China, Gai estimates Samsung's share of smartphones with 5-inch or larger screens to fall only from 73 percent in 2012 to 58 percent in 2016, which is still the lion's share.

By then consumers will see the phablet for what it is, says Horace Dediu, a Finnish analyst who runs a technology blog asymco.com. Its rise is part of a wider march of computing power into wherever we reside - the living room, the train, bed or work.

"It makes sense that we're moving towards a time where we are served not by a computer or a netbook or a phone, but rather that we have these screens scattered around and available for us to play with," he said. "In a way the phablet is not a bulky phone but a very delicate computer."

(Editing by Emily Kaiser)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/handset-makers-scurry-join-phablet-211558347.html

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Home Business Mastery ? 3 Quick Tips to Generate Free Traffic

You get by giving. No way around this one as you grow your home business. Givers get. A lot. People who try to get before giving run into some hairy problems. It is called karma. But you are smart. You know the many benefits of generating free traffic and are willing to pay the content price to get the traffic and grow your work at home venture.

Forget tricks and sly approaches to boost your squeeze page views. You generate cash online by giving, and giving freely, of your time and talents.

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Tip 1 ? Create 2 to 3 Pieces of Content Daily

To really rake in the network marketing leads create 2 to 3 piece of home business content daily. Shoot 1 video and write a few blog posts. Put out value to receive value. Help people generate cash online to generate cash online. This all works so tremendously easy if you simply commit to making it work. Show up daily, create, generate free traffic.

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Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus carry a seriously high page rank so getting clicks through these sites means tons of link juice for you. Post your latest cash gifting blog posts on the social networks to draw in steady, free, targeted traffic. Share people?s content on FB or twitter to expand your presence.

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Many network marketing entrepreneurs ignore social bookmarking sites but these sites also carry serious link juice. Post your latest home business articles and videos to these networks in order to bump up your page rank and generate passive traffic through search engines and social networks.

Use the Tools But Drive with Content

Using sharing tools rocks but your content is the traffic generator. Solve problems with your blog posts to generate cash online. Entertain and inform with your internet business videos to generate steady, free traffic. What you give freely results in a wave of getting, which is a cool way to make a living.

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Flesh-Eating Flies Map Forest Biodiversity

Blowflies dine on animal carcasses ? and their feeding habits could help researchers to track mammals. Image: Flickr/bareego

The blowflies and flesh flies that settle on dead animals aren't just feasting on the carrion ? they're sampling their DNA. Scientists in Germany have now shown that this DNA persists for long enough to be sequenced, providing a quick and cost-effective snapshot of mammal diversity in otherwise inaccessible rainforests.

Researchers stumbled on the grisly cataloguing technique while studying a form of anthrax that kills chimpanzees in C?te d'Ivoire. They started sampling flies to see whether the insects could harbor the anthrax bacterium after feasting on infected bodies, but soon realized ?that detecting mammal DNA from flies could also be an extremely cool tool for assessing biodiversity?, says team leader S?bastien Calvignac-Spencer, an evolutionary biologist at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin.?

By baiting nets and traps with meat, the team collected carrion flies from Ta? National Park in C?te d'Ivoire and Kirindy Reserve in Madagascar, and found that 40% of them carried mammal DNA. The researchers sequenced this material to identify 16 mammals in C?te d'Ivoire, including six of the nine local primate species, as well as Jentink?s duiker (Cephalophus jentinki) ? an endangered antelope of which fewer than 3,500 remain. In Madagascar, the team identified four mammal species ? including two lemurs ? representing one in eight of all the island?s mammals. The work will appear on 7 January in Molecular Ecology.

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The DNA is ?not gorgeous, but still usable?, says Calvignac-Spencer: his team was able to recover fragments that are several hundred base pairs long ? something that would be harder to find in animals such as mammals, whose guts are more efficient at breaking food down with acids and enzymes. ?Flies have a much less sophisticated digestive system,? he says.

As well as providing inventories of species, the flies could help to track the status of endangered populations far more effectively than active searches, he suggests. For example, the Ebola virus killed thousands of gorillas in Republic of Congo and Gabon ten years ago, but active monitoring found only 44 carcasses. ?And these were gorillas!? says Calvignac-Spencer. ?Just imagine how hard it might be to monitor die-offs of bats or rodents,? he adds. ?Flies could really be precious in this context.??

?It?s an extremely simple but clever idea,? says Thomas Gilbert, a geneticist at the University of Copenhagen who last year showed that leeches can also preserve the DNA of the animals they feed on. Gilbert says that the beauty of the latest study is ?that flies are so widely distributed in comparison to our leeches. They can sample where we can't.? However, he notes that DNA is more stably preserved in leeches, so it lasts longer. ?Really, the methods are very complementary,? he says.

This article is reproduced with permission from the magazine Nature. The article was first published on January 4, 2013.

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Obama's immigration exemptions poison needed reforms, say critics ...

Advocates of a compromise reform of immigration law say their efforts are being hampered by President Barack Obama?s policy of ignoring unwanted portions of previous immigration-law compromises.

?It would be ridiculous for Republicans to actually believe that the Obama administration is going to uphold its end of any compromise,? said Rosemary Jenks, the director of government relations at NumbersUSA, which wants a reform that would invite fewer, but higher skilled, immigrants

?If Obama does not believe the existing laws apply to him, why would he believe a new compromise applies to him?? she said.

Obama has announced he will introduce a draft immigration reform bill early this year.

But his deputies also said Jan. 3 they would routinely award hardship exemptions from a penalty mandated in the 1996 immigration law. The exemptions for be provided to many illegal immigrants who have married to a U.S. citizen.

The Jan. 3 announcement follows Obama?s declaration in June 2012 that he would spend taxpayer money to grant work permits to younger illegal immigrants, said Steven Camarota, the research director at the Center for Immigration Studies.

It shows that Obama doesn?t need to get Congress? approval for the amnesty he wants, Camarota said. ?By doing all this [via regulations], he is in creating an amnesty by fiat,? unless Congress counters his unilateral moves, he said.

The announcement?received much favorable coverage in established media outlets, such as The Washington Post, and came?as the nation?s high unemployment rate rose in December.

Roughly 10 million illegal immigrants live in the United States. Many are related to U.S. citizens or legal residents. Roughly 23 million Americans are unemployed, underemployed or have dropped out of the workforce since 2009.

The 1996 provision said illegal immigrants who wanted to claim residency ? for example, after marrying a citizen ? must return to their home country for three or ten years before getting residency. The provision was intended to hinder marriages to illegal immigrants while protecting routine immigration of citizens? foreign spouses.

Under the 1996 law, illegal immigrants who had stayed in the United States for up to one year would be delayed three years before they could return. Illegals who had stayed in the U.S. for more than one year would be delayed 10 years.

By promising waivers for illegal immigrant spouses, parents and minor children of new citizens, Obama is reducing the barriers to illegal immigrants gaining residency and work-permits, said Camarota.

Illegal immigrants can apply for the new waiver without a risk of being deported, even if they have a criminal record, he said. If they get the waiver, they?ll apply for residency via the U.S. embassy in their home country. If they don?t get the waiver, he said, they?ll simply stay in the United States.

?It is it ?Heads I win, tails you lose,?? he said.

The decision makes fools of millions of law-abiding foreigners awaiting permission to immigrate, he added.

Instead of jury-rigging an expensive escape hatch for illegals, the president should have followed the constitution and asked Congress to change the law, said Camarota.

?If you want to get rid of the 3-year/10-year bar, you?ve got to go Congress, make your case, have it passed and signed into law,? he said.

?Congress specifically passed the 3-year/10-year bar in 1996 to discourage illegal immigration ? [but] we have the president simply saying I don?t like this law, so I won?t enforce it,? he said.

?There?s no difference between this [immigration exemption] and the next presidents saying ? ?I?m not going to enforce the corporate income-tax and I?ll give any corporation that doesn?t pay its income tax a waiver,?? he added.

Other immigration reform groups praised the administration?s exemption policy and urged its expansion.

?For too long, thousands of immigrants with U.S. citizen family members haven?t applied for permanent residency out of fear of being separated from their families,? said a statement form America?s Voice, which supports immigration change that helps new immigrants bring in their extended families, without regard for education, productivity, age or health.

?This new rule puts families first and allows immigrants to apply for permanent residency without having to spend months or years away from their loved ones,? the group said.

American?s Voice also said the new exemption does not go far enough.

?The family members of legal permanent residents are not yet eligible for these waivers, nor are bi-national same sex couples,? it said.

Jenks slammed other immigration groups that supported the exemption.

?There?s no question that the advocacy groups want as much immigration as possible, however it is accomplished, legally or illegally, by bending, breaking or ignoring the rules,? Jenks said.

Obama?s refusal to enforce the 1996 law will spur the arrival of new immigrants, just as the formal unemployment rate nudged up again to 7.8 percent, the same rate as in January 2009.

In December, the formal unemployment rate is 23.5 percent among teenagers, 11.5 percent among people aged below 30, 22.1 percent for younger African Americans, and 12.2 percent for younger Hispanics. Millions of additional Americans have given up looking for work, gone back to school, retired or claimed disability.

Immigration is also politically significant.

Obama?s 2012 support for Latino illegal immigrants helped him win emotional support among Latino communities, despite his unpopular economic policies.

Up to 1.76 million illegal immigrants, including 800,000 who are now younger than 18, are eligible for the work-permits that Obama made available in June, according to the Migration Policy Institute. However, only 20 percent of the eligible adults have some college experience, despite the increasing unemployment rate among low-skilled workers in a high-skill economy.

Correspondingly, many working-class and middle-class whites voters who worry about employment also dislike amnesties for illegals. But relatively few turned out to support GOP candidate Gov. Mitt Romney in Ohio, Wisconsin, Virginia, Florida and other critical states.

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Source: http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/04/obamas-immigration-exemptions-poison-needed-reforms-say-critics/

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