The rapid growth in health care spending in the U.S. in recent years has placed an increasingly heavy financial burden on individuals and families, with a steadily growing share of workers’ total compensation going to health care costs. Because firms choose to compensate their workers with either wages or with benefits such as employer-sponsored health […]
Download: Rectangular (630px by 303px) | Square (389px by 354px) 41 — that’s the number of leading economists — including three Nobel Prize winners — who sent a letter to President Obama and Congress yesterday urging the swift passage of comprehensive health insurance reform to curb skyrocketing health care costs. [Source] 41 — is […]
div.imgleft { padding-bottom: 0px; padding-right: 5px; float: left; } Yesterday USDA and First Lady Michelle Obama announced the Apps for Healthy Kids competition – part of Mrs. Obama’s Let’s Move! Campaign to raise a healthier generation of kids. The contest challenges developers to create innovative, fun and engaging tools and games that encourage children to […]
Click here to see the video. In his State of the Union address, President Obama spoke about doubling America’s exports over the next few years. Today, he discussed the first steps to meet that goal at the Export-Import Bank’s Annual Conference. While addressing the importance of America being able to compete in the global marketplace, […]
Sometimes it’s good to look up close at how a single Recovery Act project is changing a community for the better and putting people to work. Other times it’s instructuve to take a few steps back and look at the big picture. As an example of the latter, the web team at the Federal Highway Administration created […]
(Delayed in transmission.) Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s message to the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), delivered by Haile Menkerios, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan, in Nairobi on 9 March: It is a pleasure to greet all the participants in this important meeting. I thank His Excellency Minister Moses Wetang?ula and the […]
The following statement was issued yesterday by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General condemns the approval of plans for the building of 1,600 new housing units in East Jerusalem by the Israeli Ministry of Interior earlier today. He reiterates that settlements are illegal under international law. Furthermore, he underscores that settlement […]
With the approach of the 1,000 day mark since the start of the blockade against Gaza, an illegal economy was being imposed on the territory?s people, who now depended on goods imported through illegal tunnels, Filippo Grandi, the newly appointed Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near […]
The aim of an independent review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was to ensure the quality of its future reports, the co-chair of the scientific institute charged with that task said today. “Our goal will be to assure nations around the world that they will receive sound scientific advice on which […]
While discussing health insurance reform in St. Charles, Missouri today, President Obama announced new efforts to reign in waste and fraud in Medicare, Medicaid and other government programs. He explained that the administration plans to prevent wasted dollars through the use of payment recapture audits by giving auditors incentives to catch improper payments and payment […]
