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The Bad Things That Can Happen When You Lose Your Job

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 01.27.2012

Read More: Cobra, Unemployment, Unemployment Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Affordable Care Act, Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan, Health Insurance, Health Insurance Premiums, Business News

Lianne Valenti lost her job as manager for a company that makes portable power generators last July. Valenti, who is 46 and lives in Long Beach, Ca...

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On The Road: Solyndra's Workers Join Scramble For Jobs

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Needham | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Obama Jobs, Cobra, Jobs Crisis, Green Jobs, Unemployment, Solyndra Bankruptcy, Patch Road Trip, Jobs, Unemployment Benefits, Brian Harrison Solyndra, Solyndra, Green News

NEWARK, Calif. -- While 51-year-old Mohammad Sharifi, a married father of two, was getting ready for work on Aug. 31, his son came into the bedroom to...

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Are You Ready to Jump Into the World of Self-Employment?

Don McNay | Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: McNay Settlement Group, Don McNay, Chuck Prince, Structured Settlement, Citigroup, Small Business, Thomas Stanley, Johnny Paycheck, Tom Peters, Bailouts, Main Street, Kentucky, Ford Motors, Millionaire Next Door, Cobra, Barbourville Kentucky, Sam Davies, Self-Employed, Wall Street, Wealth Without Wall Street, 401k, Lexmark, Health Insurance, Uaw, Entrepreneurship, Ibm, Life Insurance, Lottery Winners, Small Business America, Small Business News

If Americans like the idea of self-employment and know it presents the greatest opportunity for growth, what is stopping some of them from taking the plunge?

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Bronx Zoo Cobra's Name Revealed

AP | Posted 06.07.2011

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NEW YORK -- The name of New York City's most elusive snake is Mia (MEE'-uh) for "missing in action." The moniker won out over four other finalists Th...

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Bronx Zoo Cobra Has Been Found

Posted 05.31.2011

Read More: Bronx Zoo Cobra, Bronx Zoo Cobra Found, Cobra, Missing Bronx Zoo Cobra, Cobra Found, New York News

After a week of mystery, the Bronx Zoo cobra has been found. The infamous snake, who last week absconded from her zoo quarters and has been at lar...

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Adding It All Up

Rep. Bruce Braley | Posted 05.30.2011

Read More: Pentagon, Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Deficit Spending, Tomahawk, Budget Cuts, Afghan War, Budget, Libya War, Government Spending, Bruce Braley, Bronx, War in Iraq, Afghanistan War, Bronx Zoo Cobra, Bronx Zoo, Iraq War, Npr, Cobra, Libya, Libya News, Military, Federal Budget Deficit, Libya No Fly Zone, Spending Cuts, Military Spending, Libyan Rebels, Defense Spending, Iraq, Politics News

Anyone who believes the actions we take in Libya are unrelated to the budget battle would probably believe that federal funding of National Public Radio caused our $1.3 trillion deficit. The facts just don't add up.

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Bronx Zoo Closes Reptile House After Cobra Disappears

AP | Posted 05.27.2011

Read More: Bronx Zoo, Cobra, Snakes, Animals, Ny News, Cobra Closes Bronx Zoo, New York News

NEW YORK — A poisonous cobra has vanished from an enclosure outside public view at the Bronx Zoo, and its Reptile House remained closed Sunday a...

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Insurance Reality Check

Jason Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hipaa, Cobra, Homeowners Insurance, Automobile Insurance, Health Insurance, Primary Mortgage Insurance, Business News

When it comes to insurance, many people face the Goldilocks dilemma: Am I buying too much coverage, not enough, or just the right amount? Unfortunatel...

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Obama's Half Measures Won't Save the States

Marshall Auerback | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jobs, Deficit, State Budgets, Obama, Unemployment, Stimulus, Cobra, COBRA Legislation, State Bankruptcy, Health Care, Pell Grants, Business News

Obama's proposed aid for state unemployment insurance programs may well prevent things from getting worse, but it will not generate significant gains in employment or the condition of state finances.

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Financial Responsibilities for the Self-Employed

Jason Alderman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Business Tax Deductions, Cobra, Small Business Administration, Health Insurance, Retirement Savings, Self-Employment Tax, Healthy Living News

Some people go into business for themselves so they can call their own shots; others turn to self-employment out of necessity after falling victim to ...

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Jobless Mom To Son: 'Santa Had To Cut Back At The North Pole This Year'

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congress, Poverty, Santa Claus, Unemployment Benefits, Middle Class, Jobs, Chrstmas 2010, Unemployment Rate, Cobra, Santa, Unemployment, Unemployment Insurance, Tax Cuts, Third World America, Politics News

At first, Samara McAuliffe thought of her layoff earlier this year as a good thing. "I kind of saw the layoff as an opportunity to find a dream job,...

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Unemployed Are Seeing a Rise in Health Care Costs

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: AON Consulting, Cobra, Health Insurance, Unemployment, Business News

While the national unemployment rate has been hovering at about 9.5 percent for the last year, the average cost of health care plans for jobless Ameri...

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Senate Approves $60 Billion For War, While House Cuts $24 Billion For Unemployed Workers And State Aid

AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER and ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghanistan War, Congress, Workers, Laid-Off, Unemployment Benefits, War, Afghan War, House, Cobra, Deficit, Senate, Education, Unemployment, Iraq War, Health Insurance, Teachers, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Senate easily passed an almost $60 billion war funding bill Thursday, but anxiety over out-of-control budget deficits led House...

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Underemployed And Didn't Have Health Insurance ...

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care, Debt, Cobra, Taxes, Deficits, Politics News

This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at OurFuture.org. I am a Fellow with CAF. I just talked to an old friend yester...

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La Rosa Carrington's Insurance Coverage Threatened By A Penny

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: La Rosa Carrington, Cobra, Leukemia, Discovery Benefits, Health Insurance, Larosa Carrington, Denver News

A Colorado Springs woman going through chemotherapy for leukemia had her health care coverage threatened by an insurance company over a single penny. ...

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We Need Jobs, Jobs, Jobs. And Jobs.

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cobra, Jobs, Unemployment, Politics News

This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture as part of the Making It In America project. I am a ...

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Senate Dems Push To Reinstate COBRA After GOP Block

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tax Extenders, Cobra Health Insurance, Unemployment Benefits, Cobra, Sherrod Brown, Bob Casey, Politics News

Sens. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) introduced legislation Tuesday to reinstate the healthcare subsidies for fired workers that expired...

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Soon-To-Be-Uninsurable Man Would Have Been Helped By Health Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Cobra, Health Care, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News

Subash Majumdar said he was hospitalized with kidney failure the same day lost his job as the finance director at a computer hardware company in Decem...

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The F Word: The Pain of FauxFeminist Populism

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women, Welfare, Tea Party, Meg Whitman, Feminist, Economy, Main Street, Jobs, Medicaid, Conservative, Grit Tv, Feminism, Sarah Palin, Republican, Cobra, Elections, Unemployment, Health Care, Carly Fiorina, Laura Flanders, Health, Grittv, Tanf, Healthcare, Politics News

I feel your pain -- how many times are we going to hear that between now and the midterm elections? Republicans and Democrats all know that the econom...

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Dems Move To Reinstate COBRA Subsidies

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cobra, Unemployment, Sherrod Brown, Bob Casey, Unemployment Insurance, Jobless, Cobra Subsidies, Bob Casey Cobra, Politics News

As the Senate debates a bill to reauthorize expired domestic aid programs, including a provision to extend jobless benefits for the long-term unemploy...

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Obama To Congress: Extend COBRA Subsidies

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cobra, Obama COBRA, Obama Unemployment, Cobra Subsidies, Obama Congress, Politics News

President Obama pressed Congress to extend COBRA subsidies on Tuesday, as the Senate considers a House measure that drops the health insurance assista...

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Layoff Victims Now Ineligible For Health Insurance Subsidy

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deficit, Unemployment, Deficit Spending, Tax Extenders, Unemployment Benefits, Cobra, Health Insurance, Jobs, Health Benefits, Politics News

Jim Sullivan lost his job as a manager at a wholesale distributor in June 2009, but he kept his health insurance thanks to the stimulus bill, which lo...

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The Jobs Deficit & The Breaking Point, Pt 1.

Terrance Heath | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congress, The Shock Doctrine, Deficit Spending, Jobs, Joblessness, Layoffs, Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine, Cobra, Shock Doctrine, Unemployment, Jobless Rate, Federal Budget Deficit, Long-Term Unemployment, State and Local Government, Jobless Benefits, Unemployment Benefits, Health Care, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News

Like the college professor he is, Dr. Bernard Anderson, member of the National Urban League President's Council of Economic Advisors, came to this wee...

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Guillotines And Green / Tea Party Thinking

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jobs, Cobra, Unemployment, Afn, Politics News

This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture. I am a Fellow with CAF. Congress is a big FAIL on ...

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Democrats Won in Murtha's District on Trade Reform

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blue Dogs, Heath Shuler, Outsourcing, John Murtha, Cobra, Unemployment, Van Jones, Mark Critz, Nafta, Nancy Pelosi, Summer Jobs, Obama, Richard Trumka, Campaign for America's Future, Tea Party, John McCain, Arianna Huffington, Murtha-Western-Pennsylvania-Racist, Politics News

The lesson should be clear: Trade reform is a hugely popular issue on both the left and right. Trade is an issue that candidates can win on in 2010.

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