Benefits

Money Spent On Perks, Fringe Benefits Rose At Bailed Out Banks Last Year

Washington Post | Tomoeh Murakami Tse | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business


Even as the nation's biggest financial firms were struggling and the federal government was spending hundreds of billions of dollars to save many of t...

Referendum 71: US Supreme Court Judge Blocks Release Of Names In Gay Rights Ballot Fight

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has temporarily blocked Washington state officials from releasing the names of people who sig...

Employers Cut Pay, Hours For Those Still On The Job

New York Times | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business


In recent decades, layoffs were the standard procedure for shrinking labor costs. Reducing the wages of those who remained on the job was considered d...

Jeff Muskus

Pelosi Backs Extension Of Parental Health Benefits For Kids To Age 27

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics


A new provision being rolled into the unified House health care bill would allow young adults to stay on their parents' health care plans until they t...

Wait For Health Care Benefits Is 3 Years If Health Care Bill Passes

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 10.11.2009 | Home


WASHINGTON — Sixty years is how long Democrats say they've been pushing for legislation that provides health care access for all Americans. They...

AZ Govt Overrides Voters, Strips Benefits From Domestic Partners & Disabled Dependents

Dawn Teo | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics


Dawn Teo

But state and university employees no longer feel welcomed by the state. One state employee said, "I choose to work for the state as a public servant, but the state just spit in my eye."

Many Workers Face An Erosion Of Health Benefits Next Year

Washington Post | David S. Hilzenrath | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics


Though Americans who already have medical coverage may be wary of change, a new survey indicates that they may be hard-pressed to escape it -- even in...

$3.1B Set Aside For Unemployed Is Unclaimed Because States Haven't Expanded Jobless Benefits

USA Today | Matt Kelley | Posted 09.30.2009 | Business


More than $3.1 billion in stimulus money for state unemployment insurance programs is sitting in a federal trust fund because 23 states haven't expand...

Test Important Relationships for Even Energy Exchange

Margaret Ruth | Posted 09.07.2009 | Living


Margaret Ruth

Economists have an analysis technique to identify and compare all expenditure and benefits of a given project; cost/benefit analysis. There's a similar energetic rule for interpersonal associations.

Who Is at the Table?

Dave Johnson | Posted 08.16.2009 | Business


Dave Johnson

Progressives believe in a "we're all in this together" philosophy while conservatives follow a "you are on your own" philosophy. The differences betwe...

Tips on Parenting from the Dad of a 'Stupid Kid'

Christina Patterson | Posted 08.16.2009 | Living


Christina Patterson

Middle-class parents somehow believe that the web of neurotic over-protection that they weave around little Ella or Sam should extend seamlessly to every object, or person, they meet.

Starbucks Offers Better Same-Sex Medical Benefits Than Obama

Kase Wickman | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics


Kase Wickman

A gay Starbucks barista's wife gets better medical benefits than if she was married to a female senator.

Friday Talking Points [79] -- Judicial Activism And Bias

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics


Chris Weigant

"Judicial activism" (or, alternatively, "legislating from the bench") is defined -- no matter what your political beliefs -- as "judges not ruling the...

I'm Not Sorry, I'm Vegan

Cheri Shankar | Posted 02.12.2009 | Living


Cheri Shankar

There must be a reason that, generally speaking, meat is served headless. I think all of us feel squeamish when confronted with the whole of an animal that looks much the same dead and cooked as it did alive and well.

COBRA Checklist

Roseanne Colletti | Posted 01.19.2009 | Business


Roseanne Colletti

If you want to keep your COBRA benefits, don't relocate without a new job with benefits. Remember, knowing how to duck when the COBRA strikes is the key to survival.

Is Corporate America Addicted to Layoffs?

Eve Tahmincioglu | Posted 01.08.2009 | Business


Eve Tahmincioglu

Are these corporate managers making the right moves during tough economic times, or are they shortsighted and dumb?

Like Music and Oil. Perfect Together?

Mark Levine | Posted 09.07.2008 | Politics


Mark Levine

Bringing artists to engage the peoples of countries that are often in tension with the United States (as are many OPEC nations) can increase international goodwill and ease geopolitical tensions.

Benefits Basics For Recent Grads In New Jobs

New York Times | Ron Lieber | Posted 07.08.2008 | Business


To the hundreds of thousands of young people who have landed entry-level jobs that come with health insurance and a retirement plan, I offer my congra...