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Week ended Sept. 11 jobless claims rise as Covid wave hits
September 16, 2021 — Week ended Sept. 11 jobless claims rose 20,000 to a total of 332,000, following a pandemic low in the prior week, a sign that rising Covid-19 infections are harming economy, the US Department of Labor reports. Applications for unemployment benefits had been steadily decreasing as a number of states cut jobless […]
Social Security Turns 86, Millions of Working People Lifted Out Of Poverty
16/08/2021 Comments Off on Social Security Turns 86, Millions of Working People Lifted Out Of Poverty
America’s Social Security safety net turns 86 this month. The Social Security Act of 1935 enacted by the 74th United States Congress and signed into law by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Aug. 14, 1935 The law created the Social Security program as well as insurance against unemployment. The law was part of Roosevelt’s New […]
Continue reading …Surprising Answers: Who Really Pays For Health Insurance
04/05/2014 Comments Off on Surprising Answers: Who Really Pays For Health Insurance
By Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News staff writer– More than eight million people have signed up for private, often subsidized health insurance under Affordable Care Act, President Obama said in April. Millions more obtained new coverage through the Medicaid program for the poor. Full implementation of the health law, care and its wider coverage, new taxes and shifting subsidies, […]
Continue reading …ACA Emboldens Some Quit Jobs, Start Businesses
02/05/2014 Comments Off on ACA Emboldens Some Quit Jobs, Start Businesses
By Stephanie O’Neill, KPCC/KHN, LONG BEACH, Calif. — Until recently, Mike Smith, 64, worked 11 hours a day, Monday through Friday and then half a day on Saturday, as a district manager for a national auto parts chain — a schedule he’s kept for nearly 40 years. Early retirement, while certainly appealing, wasn’t a viable option for […]
Continue reading …With High Deductible Health Insurance, It Pays To Shop Around For Care
21/05/2013 Comments Off on With High Deductible Health Insurance, It Pays To Shop Around For Care
By MICHELLE ANDREWS, KHN— When Maria and Vadim Brodsky’s then 7-year-old daughter needed an MRI two years ago to examine a tumor in her head, they took her to a hospital in their health insurance plan’s network and were dismayed to receive a $4,500 bill. The couple had a $6,000 deductible on their family health insurance […]
Continue reading …Mixed Messages On Direction Of Health Care Spending
07/05/2013 Comments Off on Mixed Messages On Direction Of Health Care SpendingBy JORDAN RAU, KHN— Two new studies assert that the country’s unusual slowdown in health care spending growth rates may be due more to structural changes in the health care system than to the lagging economy, and could continue even after business picks up. National health care spending grew by 3.9% a year between 2009 […]
Continue reading …Health Care Insurance Marketplace Call Centers Creating 9K Jobs
03/05/2013 Comments Off on Health Care Insurance Marketplace Call Centers Creating 9K Jobs
By PHIL GALEWITZ, KHN— The federal health care law derided as a “job-killer” by critics will create an estimated 9,000 jobs in 14 states this summer to handle consumer inquiries about new online insurance marketplaces. The jobs are through Vangent, a General Dynamics subsidiary, which was awarded a $530 million one-year contract by the federal government to […]
Continue reading …Consumer Groups: Patients May Face Big Out-Of-Pocket Health Care Costs
15/04/2013 Comments Off on Consumer Groups: Patients May Face Big Out-Of-Pocket Health Care Costs
By JULIE APPLEBY, KHN Staff Writer— Some consumers may continue to face out-of-pocket health care expenses of $12,500 or more next year – double the amount allowed by the health law – because the Obama administration won’t enforce that provision for some plans for another year. “This is a very important consumer protection that is being […]
Continue reading …HHS Seeks $1.5B For Federal Health Insurance Exchanges
13/04/2013 Comments Off on HHS Seeks $1.5B For Federal Health Insurance Exchanges
By MARY AGNES CAREY, KHN Staff Writer— The Obama administration, rebuffed earlier this year by Republicans, is trying once again to convince Congress to provide more funding for the health law’s health insurance exchanges, which are set to begin enrollment this fall. According to figures released in the fiscal 2014 budget request Wednesday, the administration estimates that the federal […]
Continue reading …Insurers Battle For Federal Employees Health Care Coverage
12/04/2013 Comments Off on Insurers Battle For Federal Employees Health Care Coverage
By PHIL GALEWITZ, KHN Staff Writer— Two of the nation’s leading forces in health insurance — UnitedHealthcare and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association – faced off Thursday before Congress in a battle for control of the $47 billion program that covers 8 million federal employees, retirees and their families. UnitedHealthcare wants to change a […]
Continue reading …- Celebrating the Resilience of Low-Income Women
- CEOs Get to Retire Comfortably. Workers Like Me Deserve the Same.
- Jobs Increased 339,000 In May, Unemployment Up 0.3% To 3.7%
- The decline of job creation at new establishments
- Contractor faces 2 serious citations after US Department of Labor finds safety failures led to welder’s death at Bonner Bridge demolition project
- Investigation into worker’s severe arm injury finds Cusseta auto parts manufacturer, supplier willfully ignored safety precautions
- ‘It’s a sweat factory’: Instacart workers ready to strike for pay and conditions
- Ships backed up outside US ports pumping out pollutants as they idle
- Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system
- ‘We are not machines’: Hollywood workers poised to strike for better conditions
- Boeing pilot indicted for allegedly deceiving US regulators over 737 Max
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Over 10,000 John Deere workers strike over ‘years’ of poor treatment
- Corporations are pledging to be ‘water positive’. What does that mean?
- US Department of Labor investigation of crane collapse, double fatality on Interstate 10 finds Lufkin company failed to assemble crane properly
- For the 6th time in 7 years, federal inspectors find Illinois contractor putting construction workers at risk of industry’s deadliest hazard
- US Department of Labor proposes $83K in fines to healthcare facility for failing to protect workers from coronavirus hazards
- Facebook says it will do more to prevent online hate, harassment
- As U.S. prepares to reopen border, some urge Canada to relax testing requirement
- Biden orders companies to ease supply chain bottlenecks or he’ll ‘call them out’
- What is the ‘new model’ the EU is proposing for Northern Ireland?
- Apple to make 10 million fewer iPhones due to microchip shortage
- US Department of Labor, Mexican Consulate in Boston enter alliance to promote workplace safety, health among New England’s workers
- US Department of Labor sues Austin luxury car dealer that retaliated against employee who raised concerns of coronavirus hazards
- Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect
- Carbon emissions ‘will drop just 40% by 2050 with countries’ current pledges’
- House passes bill to raise US debt ceiling through early December
- ‘The stakes couldn’t be higher’: GE urged to invest in green US jobs
- Zellers returns — kind of — but the lowest price isn't quite the law
- Cement makers across world pledge large cut in emissions by 2030
- India faces electricity crisis as coal supplies run critically low
- California justice department to investigate enormous oil spill