Economic Stimulus
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Affirmative Action is The Real Economic Stimulus Package
According to this author's opinion, the current arguments about "the playing field being level" or "everyone has a chance now" are a dead end.
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Federal Subsidy Doubles COBRA Enrollment
… coverage has doubled since a federal subsidy program began, according to an analysis released Tuesday, August 18. An economic stimulus measure Congress passed in February includes the federal government paying 65 percent of the COBRA premium for up to nine …
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Senate Panel to Consider Nine-Month COBRA Subsidy
Economic stimulus legislation to be considered by the Senate Finance Committee next ..... The provision is far more limited than the COBRA section of the economic stimulus bill approved Thursday, January 22, by the House Ways and Means …
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COBRA Program Subsidies to Expire at End of August
… laid-off employees will end this month. Under the COBRA premium subsidy program, which was included as part of a huge economic stimulus bill Congress passed in February 2009 during the peak of the recession, the federal government pays 65 percent of COBRA …
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Senate Backs Higher Tax Credit for Certain Health Insurance Premiums
… Assistance Reform Act of 2002. Federal lawmakers originally set the subsidy as a 65 percent federal tax credit. In 2009, an economic stimulus law raised the credit to 80 percent through Dec. 31, 2010. Last year, Congress approved a temporary extension through …
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Senate Leaders Agree on New Approach to Health Coverage Tax Credit
… the Trade Adjustment Assistance law. Federal lawmakers set the subsidy as a 65 percent federal tax credit. In 2009, an economic stimulus law raised the credit to 80 percent through Dec. 31, 2010, and Congress last year approved a temporary extension through …
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Prospects for Boost in Employee Mass Transit Tax Breaks Dim
… payroll tax reduction bill. The history of the higher mass transit tax break goes back to 2009, when lawmakers approved an economic stimulus measure that allowed employees to reduce their taxable salaries by up to $230 a month to pay for mass transit expenses …
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President to Sign Bill Increasing Health Insurance Subsidies for Certain Workers
… Federal lawmakers originally set the subsidy, as part of a 2002 law, as a 65 percent federal tax credit. In 2009, an economic stimulus law raised the credit to 80 percent through Dec. 31, 2010. Last year, Congress approved a temporary extension through …
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Senate Negotiators Revamp COBRA Subsidy Plan
… 1, 2008, through December 31, 2009, under a massive economic stimulus bill the Senate is expected to vote on Tuesday, February ..... 100 billion to just more than $800 billion. Under an economic stimulus bill passed earlier by the House of Representatives, the …
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House and Senate Conferees Agree on 65 Percent COBRA Premium Subsidy
Employees who are laid off between September 1, 2008, and December 31, 2009, would be eligible for a 60 percent federal subsidy for up to nine months of COBRA health insurance premiums under economic stimulus legislation nearing final congressional approval.
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Obama Proposes COBRA Premium Subsidy Extension
… Hewitt Associates Inc. in Washington. Nearly one year ago, Congress included COBRA premium subsidies as part of a broad economic stimulus package it approved. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 included a 65 percent COBRA premium subsidy to …
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Stopgap COBRA Subsidy Extension Bill Expected
… observers say. Just more than a year ago, Congress passed a nine-month federal COBRA premium subsidy as part of a massive economic stimulus bill. The subsidy was available to employees laid off from September 1, 2008, through December 31, 2009. Then, last …
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Preventable Medical Errors Still Kill Thousands, Cost Billions as Employers Foot Bill
… billions of dollars in the federal budget for that task. Additionally, the administration earmarked $19 billion in the economic stimulus bill to create a health information technology infrastructure that it says will reduce medication prescribing errors and …
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Employers Turn to Lobbyists to Navigate Benefits Policy Issues
… primary catalyst for economic growth and as the remedy for inequities in the workplace. For example, the $787 billion economic stimulus package signed by Obama in February originally contained a provision that would have required employers to extend health care …
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Measuring the Health of Health Care Staffing
… and nimble and don’t create too much overhead, you’ll do well.” Stimulus should boost health care The Obama economic stimulus package contains $59 billion for health care, of which more than $20 billion will be allocated to health information technology …
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Analysis COBRA Premium Subsidy Doubled Enrollment
… in during five months prior to the subsidy, according to a study. Under the subsidy program, which was embedded in an economic stimulus measure Congress passed in February 2009 and later extended and expanded, the federal government pays 65 percent of the …
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IRS Releases More Guidance on COBRA Subsidy
… questions that have been raised about the federal COBRA premium subsidy . Under that subsidy, included as part of a broader economic stimulus bill President Barack Obama signed in February, the federal government pays 65 percent of COBRA premiums for employees …
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COBRA Subsidy Extension Complicates Benefits Administration
… premium subsidies. Under the measure, H.R. 3326, the nine-month 65 percent premium subsidyâ established by an economic stimulus measure Congress passed early last yearâ would be extended by six months to 15 months for employees involuntarily terminated …
