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LOCAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND EMPLOYEE BENEFITS BROKER, HEALTH & BENEFITS PARTNERS, SCORES A HATTRICK WITH INC. 5000, PHILADELPHIA BUSINESS JOURNAL’S PHILLY FAST 50, AND PHILADELPHIA FORUM 100 HONORS THIS YEAR | PR Newswire [Video]

, /PRNewswire/ — Health & Benefits Partners, an independent broker providing individual and group health insurance and employee benefits, today announced it earned placement on the Inc. 5000 list, Philadelphia Business Journal’s Philly Fast 50 list, and the Philadelphia100 Forum’s Philadelphia100 list. The awards recognize the company’s remarkable growth: Health & Benefits Partners has more than doubled its revenue and grown employees, clients, services, and offices in the last two years all while maintaining an exceptional client retention rate.

Located in Philadelphia, Health & Benefits Partners serves more than 1,400 clients in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, primarily those with fewer than 100 employees, with group, individual, and Medicare insurance benefits and retirement planning services. Founder and CEO Adam Peltzman has led the growing company for more than 20 years, including two strategic acquisitions in the last two years.

“These awards are a testament to our team’s commitment to integrity, communication and solutions for clients,” …

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Trump names Brendan Carr, senior GOP leader at FCC, to lead the agency [Video]

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday named Brendan Carr, the senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission, as the new chairman of the agency tasked with regulating broadcasting, telecommunications and broadband.Carr is a longtime member of the commission and served previously as the FCC's general counsel. He has been unanimously confirmed by the Senate three times and was nominated by both Trump and President Joe Biden to the commission.The FCC is an independent agency that is overseen by Congress, but Trump has suggested he wanted to bring it under tighter White House control, in part to use the agency to punish TV networks that cover him in a way he doesnt like.Carr has of late embraced Trump's ideas about social media and tech. Carr wrote a section devoted to the FCC in Project 2025, a sweeping blueprint for gutting the federal workforce and dismantling federal agencies in a second Trump administration produced by the conservative Heritage Foundation.Trump has claimed he doesnt know anything about Project 2025, but many of its themes have aligned with his statements.Carr said in a statement congratulating Trump on his win that he believed "the FCC will have an important role to play reining in Big Tech, ensuring that broadcasters operate in the public interest, and unleashing economic growth.Commissioner Carr is a warrior for Free Speech, and has fought against the regulatory Lawfare that has stifled Americans Freedoms, and held back our Economy, Trump said in a statement on Sunday. He will end the regulatory onslaught that has been crippling Americas Job Creators and Innovators, and ensure that the FCC delivers for rural America.The five-person commission has a 3-2 Democratic majority until next year, when Trump gets to appoint a new member.Carr has made appearances on Fox News Channel, including when he slammed Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris appearance on Saturday Night Live the weekend before the election charging that the network didnt offer equal time to Trump.Also a prolific writer of op-eds, Carr wrote in an opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal last month decrying an FCC decision to revoke a federal award for Elon Musks satellite service, Starlink. He said the move couldnt be explained "by any objective application of the facts, the law or sound policy.In my view, it amounted to nothing more than regulatory lawfare against one of the lefts top targets: Mr. Musk, Carr wrote.