The Affordable Care Act (ACA) expands health insurance predominantly through three policies: 1  Medicaid expansion to cover the poorest Americans (those under 138 percent of the Federal Poverty Level, or FPL).
Only eat oysters in months with an 'R.'. This little pearl of folk wisdom carries more truth than you might expect, since the months without the letter R in their names (May through August) coincide with summer in the Northern Hemisphere.
How many oysters are in a bushel? In 2012, clam harvesters produced 6 million pounds of hard shell clam meat worth nearly $40 million. Farms in Virginia and Florida contributed greater supplies of clams that lowered prices, while clam harvesters in New England states caught the animals in wild beds.