Posts Tagged ‘Insurance’

Stocks poised to open higher after steep sell off

NEW YORK – Stocks appear poised to rebound, a day after suffering their worst losses in seven months. A monthly report on consumer prices and a weekly tally of first-time claims for unemployment insurance are due out Thursday morning. Economists forecast that the Consumer Price Index rose 0.4 percent in … View full post on [...]

States spurned audits’ alerts on jobless-aid drain

Over the past three decades, two national commissions and a series of government audits sounded alarms about the dwindling amount of money states were setting aside to pay unemployment insurance to laid-off workers. View full post on All Stories

Faced with rising trade deficit, UK comes up with programs to boost exports

Linda Young – AHN News Writer London, United Kingdom (AHN) – British Business Secretary Vince Cable on Wednesday unveiled new programs aimed at increasing exports by small companies to reverse the nation’s trade deficit. Cable explained that the UK had racked up a trade deficit in goods and services by consuming too much while exporting [...]

Obama’s debt relief plan could spare Florida up to $500M, White House says, but could hurt later

Florida would not have to pay back between $400 million and $500 million in jobless insurance debt owed to the federal government over the next two years under a plan President Obama will outline next week, the White House said. Obama has to sell the moratorium to Congress as part of his 2012 budget proposal [...]

Obama Wants Jobless Aid Help for States

The Obama administration is proposing short-term relief to states saddled with unemployment insurance debt, coupled with a delayed increase in the income level used to tax employers for the aid to the jobless. View full post on All Stories

Analysis: After the Great Recession, the Great Regression?

After the Great Recession, Europe has embarked on a Great Regression. Wages, pensions, unemployment insurance, welfare benefits and collective bargaining are under attack in many areas as governments struggle. View full post on All Stories

COMMENTARY: A Time for Choosing

On February 6, 2011, falls the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ronald Reagan. The Great Communicator. The father of modern conservatism. I wanted to write a testament to this man, to explain to those unfamiliar with him who he was and in what he believed. Try as I might, I couldn’t come up with [...]

Gregoire: Cut unemployment tax for biz by $300 mil

Gov. Chris Gregoire on Tuesday proposed lowering the amount businesses pay to fund unemployment insurance in Washington state by $300 million this year – a move she says will help kick start the bad economy. View full post on All Stories

Flaherty eyes prudent bank lending to curb rise in Canadian household debt

Vittorio Hernandez – AHN News Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (AHN) – To curb the alarming rise in Canadian household debt, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty urged Canadian banks Thursday to adopt prudent lending policies. He issued the proposal after Statistics Canada found that household debt reached a record-high level in the third quarter of 2010, outpacing [...]

Judge Rules Provision In Healthcare Law Unconstitutional; Appeal Expected

Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor Richmond, VA, United States (AHN) – A federal judge on Monday supported the constitutional challenge filed by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli against the Obama administration’s healthcare reform law. The judge rejected the request to suspend the law during an expected appeal from the federal government. U.S. District Judge [...]

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