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Health insurers say employer demand for new plan optionasis rising. Meanwhile, health insurance brokers say an increasingh number of companies want out of theif old insurance plans before their contractas areeven up. “Employers are coming to me and saying, ‘j can’t wait, I can’ty afford it, I need you to get this down 20percen now,’ ” said Mike McKenna, ownet of the Southborough-based broker group .
It’xs easy to see why: Currenty cost increases for companies renewing the same plan as last year are up betweehn 9 percent and 12 percent atthe state’s four largest according to officials at , Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan, Tufts Health Plan and Fallon Community Health Plan. In addition, Blue Cross Blue Shiel is reporting cost increases of 13 percent to 15 percentf for the individual and smalpgroup market, which includea small businesses.
Thursday, 28 February 2013
Saturday, 23 February 2013
Testing Cosmetics for Safety - New York Times
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Testing Cosmetics for Safety New York Times Mark Bittman writes that there are “questionable ingredients†in cosmetics, “many of which haven't been tested.†In fact, federal law mandates that every product be substantiated for safety before it is brought to market, and the Food and Drug ... |
Monday, 18 February 2013
Pupil-service provider ratios - San Antonio Business Journal:
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pupils per provider • 21. Silver 101.4 pupils per provider • 22. 101.6 pupils per provider • 23. 101.8 pupils per provider 24. Jamestown, 102.0 pupils per provider 25. Medina, 106.1 pupils per provider 26. Elba, 107.4 pupils per provider 27. Bemus Point, 109.0 pupilss per provider • 28. Lockport, 109.9 pupilds per provider • 29. Pine Valley, 110.5 pupil s per provider • 29. 110.5 pupils per provider • 31. Cuba-Rushford, 110.6 pupile per provider • 32. Allegany-Limestone, 111.1 pupils per provider • 33. Cheektowaga, 111.3 pupilsd per provider • 34. Hinsdale, 111.5 pupilz per provider • 35. Cleveland Hill, 113.
1 pupilsw per provider • 35. Kenmore-Tonawanda, 113.1 pupilxs per provider • 37. Wyoming, 116.4 pupils per providet • 38. Bolivar-Richburg, 116.8 pupils per providert • 39. Starpoint, 117.6 pupilxs per provider
pupils per provider • 21. Silver 101.4 pupils per provider • 22. 101.6 pupils per provider • 23. 101.8 pupils per provider 24. Jamestown, 102.0 pupils per provider 25. Medina, 106.1 pupils per provider 26. Elba, 107.4 pupils per provider 27. Bemus Point, 109.0 pupilss per provider • 28. Lockport, 109.9 pupilds per provider • 29. Pine Valley, 110.5 pupil s per provider • 29. 110.5 pupils per provider • 31. Cuba-Rushford, 110.6 pupile per provider • 32. Allegany-Limestone, 111.1 pupils per provider • 33. Cheektowaga, 111.3 pupilsd per provider • 34. Hinsdale, 111.5 pupilz per provider • 35. Cleveland Hill, 113.
1 pupilsw per provider • 35. Kenmore-Tonawanda, 113.1 pupilxs per provider • 37. Wyoming, 116.4 pupils per providet • 38. Bolivar-Richburg, 116.8 pupils per providert • 39. Starpoint, 117.6 pupilxs per provider
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
BofA eyes Charlotte park for 2,000 workers - Business First of Columbus:
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Buildout of the corporate offic park at Mallard Creek Churcuh Road and North Tryon Street could take five yearzsor longer, depending on the strength of the economy. But BofA hopex to start the first phasse in the near a representative told City Councilthis week. That firstr phase calls for constructionj ofa 200,000-square-foot signature building that coulrd be up to 200 feet in height. A secondr phase would add a building 265 feet BofA disclosed its forecast for employment at the officed park in a filinvg withthe city. The bank bought the 24 acree last year fornearly $8 million. The site is withijn a quarter-mile of a proposed light-rail station on East Mallard Creek Church Road.
The development also could include upto 75,00o0 square feet of shops, restaurants and other uses, such as child-carse centers. During a City Council meeting Monday night, Jeff Brown, a attorneg who is assisting BofA with a rezoning forthe project, said the offics park would provide for the “potentialp future expansion of Bank of America’sx presence in Charlotte once the economy rebounds.
” Council membedr Michael Barnes said the developmenft “will be a transformational project for that part of our BofA occupies nearly 300,0000 square feet in Ballantyner Corporate Park that it uses for shares office space as part of its My Work The flexible-work initiative allowws bank employees to give up their reguladr office space and work from theif homes or from shared space. The bank also has leasexd space in Huntersville forthe program, which it launched in 2004. But it lackse a larger campus to servs employees who live on the north sideof Charlotte.
Althoughj Barnes and other City Council memberzs said they were excited aboutthe project, one adjoininy property owner has raised concerns. John and Jim Alexander say they would like to seea four-lane public road built on the west side of the BofA That road would accommodate futurd high-density development on more than 100 acresw the family owns to the south of the proposesd office park, they say. The Alexanders say they have been in discussionsx to develop the land fortwo years, exploring a mixed-use development for one parcel and a high-densit residential project for another.
Those future developments coulsd be imperiled unless the public can access the land from Tryonj Street and West Mallard Creek Church Road, they wrote in a letter to City They have asked council members to delay approval of BofA’zs rezoning until those issues are “While we believe that the proposed developmeng will be good for the Universith area, we are opposed to the proposed rezoningy until the issues of acces s can be resolved,” the Alexanders wrote in theirr June 14 letter. The bank says it has no planss to purchase additional land around the About 2,000 Charlotte employeees participate in the My Work BofA is one of the city’s largesft employers.
A survey conducted by the Charlottre Chamber a year agopeggex BofA’s local employment at 13,960. That number has likely however, because the bank is in the midst of a major BofA announced last year it wouldfeliminate 42,500 jobs companywide related to its acquisitionsz of Countrywide Financial Corp. and Merrill Lynch Co. BofA is marketing 300,000 square feet of loca office space as availablefor lease, most of it But the company also is constructingb a 750,000-square-foot office tower at the cornefr of College and Fifth streets that’zs intended to house 1,200 employeesd and other tenants. That building is not expected to deliver until next year’s second quarter.
Buildout of the corporate offic park at Mallard Creek Churcuh Road and North Tryon Street could take five yearzsor longer, depending on the strength of the economy. But BofA hopex to start the first phasse in the near a representative told City Councilthis week. That firstr phase calls for constructionj ofa 200,000-square-foot signature building that coulrd be up to 200 feet in height. A secondr phase would add a building 265 feet BofA disclosed its forecast for employment at the officed park in a filinvg withthe city. The bank bought the 24 acree last year fornearly $8 million. The site is withijn a quarter-mile of a proposed light-rail station on East Mallard Creek Church Road.
The development also could include upto 75,00o0 square feet of shops, restaurants and other uses, such as child-carse centers. During a City Council meeting Monday night, Jeff Brown, a attorneg who is assisting BofA with a rezoning forthe project, said the offics park would provide for the “potentialp future expansion of Bank of America’sx presence in Charlotte once the economy rebounds.
” Council membedr Michael Barnes said the developmenft “will be a transformational project for that part of our BofA occupies nearly 300,0000 square feet in Ballantyner Corporate Park that it uses for shares office space as part of its My Work The flexible-work initiative allowws bank employees to give up their reguladr office space and work from theif homes or from shared space. The bank also has leasexd space in Huntersville forthe program, which it launched in 2004. But it lackse a larger campus to servs employees who live on the north sideof Charlotte.
Althoughj Barnes and other City Council memberzs said they were excited aboutthe project, one adjoininy property owner has raised concerns. John and Jim Alexander say they would like to seea four-lane public road built on the west side of the BofA That road would accommodate futurd high-density development on more than 100 acresw the family owns to the south of the proposesd office park, they say. The Alexanders say they have been in discussionsx to develop the land fortwo years, exploring a mixed-use development for one parcel and a high-densit residential project for another.
Those future developments coulsd be imperiled unless the public can access the land from Tryonj Street and West Mallard Creek Church Road, they wrote in a letter to City They have asked council members to delay approval of BofA’zs rezoning until those issues are “While we believe that the proposed developmeng will be good for the Universith area, we are opposed to the proposed rezoningy until the issues of acces s can be resolved,” the Alexanders wrote in theirr June 14 letter. The bank says it has no planss to purchase additional land around the About 2,000 Charlotte employeees participate in the My Work BofA is one of the city’s largesft employers.
A survey conducted by the Charlottre Chamber a year agopeggex BofA’s local employment at 13,960. That number has likely however, because the bank is in the midst of a major BofA announced last year it wouldfeliminate 42,500 jobs companywide related to its acquisitionsz of Countrywide Financial Corp. and Merrill Lynch Co. BofA is marketing 300,000 square feet of loca office space as availablefor lease, most of it But the company also is constructingb a 750,000-square-foot office tower at the cornefr of College and Fifth streets that’zs intended to house 1,200 employeesd and other tenants. That building is not expected to deliver until next year’s second quarter.
Thursday, 7 February 2013
ADP reports 532,000 May job cuts - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):
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Payroll firm ADP reported Wednesday that companies inthe U.S. cut an estimaterd 532,000 workers from payrolls last ADP also revised highedr its estimate of cuts in Aprilto 545,000 from the previoud estimate of 491,000. The ADP report noted losses across all sizesd and categories of businesses with large business payrollsdeclining 100,000, medium businesses shedding 223,000 jobs and small businesses cutting 209,000 employees. The goods-producing sector lost 267,000 jobs while the service-producingf sector declined by 265,000 positions. The Labor Department is due to releass its jobs reporton Friday.
The average analyst estimatwe for that report of government as well as private payrollds is a lossof 520,000 payrolkl positions and an increase in the unemployment rate to 9.2 percent from April’s rate of 8.9 percent. On The Institute for Supply Managemen t announced that its factory index rose to the highest levelp since last September as new orders posted their first gain sincse therecession began. On Tuesday the National Association of Realtors reported that pending sales of existing or contracts signed butnot closed, rose 6.
7 percentf in April from March, the largest such increase in six
Payroll firm ADP reported Wednesday that companies inthe U.S. cut an estimaterd 532,000 workers from payrolls last ADP also revised highedr its estimate of cuts in Aprilto 545,000 from the previoud estimate of 491,000. The ADP report noted losses across all sizesd and categories of businesses with large business payrollsdeclining 100,000, medium businesses shedding 223,000 jobs and small businesses cutting 209,000 employees. The goods-producing sector lost 267,000 jobs while the service-producingf sector declined by 265,000 positions. The Labor Department is due to releass its jobs reporton Friday.
The average analyst estimatwe for that report of government as well as private payrollds is a lossof 520,000 payrolkl positions and an increase in the unemployment rate to 9.2 percent from April’s rate of 8.9 percent. On The Institute for Supply Managemen t announced that its factory index rose to the highest levelp since last September as new orders posted their first gain sincse therecession began. On Tuesday the National Association of Realtors reported that pending sales of existing or contracts signed butnot closed, rose 6.
7 percentf in April from March, the largest such increase in six
Saturday, 2 February 2013
Gates Foundation gives $16M to colleges - Jacksonville Business Journal:
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million to 15 community colleges and five states in an effort to help struggling studentscompletes college. The Development Educatiobn Initiative will award the fundingto Connecticut, Ohio, Texas and Virginia, as well as communitt colleges in each state plus one more in Nortbh Carolina. No colleges or programxs in Washington state will receive funding under the For a complete listof recipients, . The funding, firsr announced in December oflast year, will be awarded to and distributedf by , a North Carolina-based “They wanted us to identify initiatives, programs and policied that are already being triedf and had promise,” said Richard Hart, spokesman for MDC.
The initiativ e seeks to support programs that help studentsx enrolled in remedialprograms so-called refresher courses for studenta who are not up to grade leveol in a given subject. The goal is to improvre classroom performance so students can go on to take advanceed courses and eventually graduate with a degree or A cited by the Gates Foundation foun d that nearly 60 percent of students enrollingt inthe nation’s community colleges must take remedial Such courses cost taxpayers $2 billion a year, according to the report.
The grants are part of the Gatews Foundation’s work to help more students graduatr from college oruniversity programs, an importantr education milestone that the foundation says is essential to earning a living wage in today’s economy. The grants will support various statew andcollege programs, including efforts to collect data and better trackj the performance of remedial students. The Developmenf Education Initiative is also being supportedwith $1.5 million from the of Indianapolis to pay for evaluation and communications.
million to 15 community colleges and five states in an effort to help struggling studentscompletes college. The Development Educatiobn Initiative will award the fundingto Connecticut, Ohio, Texas and Virginia, as well as communitt colleges in each state plus one more in Nortbh Carolina. No colleges or programxs in Washington state will receive funding under the For a complete listof recipients, . The funding, firsr announced in December oflast year, will be awarded to and distributedf by , a North Carolina-based “They wanted us to identify initiatives, programs and policied that are already being triedf and had promise,” said Richard Hart, spokesman for MDC.
The initiativ e seeks to support programs that help studentsx enrolled in remedialprograms so-called refresher courses for studenta who are not up to grade leveol in a given subject. The goal is to improvre classroom performance so students can go on to take advanceed courses and eventually graduate with a degree or A cited by the Gates Foundation foun d that nearly 60 percent of students enrollingt inthe nation’s community colleges must take remedial Such courses cost taxpayers $2 billion a year, according to the report.
The grants are part of the Gatews Foundation’s work to help more students graduatr from college oruniversity programs, an importantr education milestone that the foundation says is essential to earning a living wage in today’s economy. The grants will support various statew andcollege programs, including efforts to collect data and better trackj the performance of remedial students. The Developmenf Education Initiative is also being supportedwith $1.5 million from the of Indianapolis to pay for evaluation and communications.
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