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Indeed, some 25 million Americans were underinsured last year, meaning they spent at least 10% of their income on out-of-pocket medical expenses, according to a recent study by the nonprofit Commonwealth Fund. Still, for most folks, having even limited coverage is better than no health insurance at all. "More than 70% of the people signing up for our [individual] policies were previously uninsured," says Mary Floyd, vice president for individual and senior sales at WellPoint...
Ayers' Illinois roots run deep. His father was a top executive at Commonwealth Edison, a local utility company. The young Ayers, inspired by the 1960s civil rights movement, later emerged as a leader of the Weather Underground, a group that bombed the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon. He and other members of the group soon fled into seclusion, taking on assumed names. He and his wife, fellow radical Bernardine Dohrn, turned themselves in after charges were dropped because of tainted evidence. (Ayers' famous quote afterward: "Guilty as hell, and free as a bird. It's a great country...
...have to work to survive.” Representatives from the non-profits Boston 826, Big Brothers and Big Sisters, and Boston Cares said they saw HollaDay as a forum to recruit volunteers. The importance of HollaDay had particular resonance this year in light of Boston’s Commonwealth Compact, a community initiative to make Massachusetts a location of choice for people of color. “We figure if people feel more comfortable in a place and enjoy it more they’ll stay,” Lee said. “If you connect students inside...
...more misguided, since the president can't technically fire the SEC head - but McCain's sentiment was nothing new. For months, calls for the SEC to do something more in the financial markets has been heard all over, from Congress, a midtown Manhattan law firm, the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, cable TV business news and former SEC commissioners. But is all the criticism being hurled at Cox, a corporate lawyer who served in the Reagan White House and as a Congressman from Orange Co., Calif. for 17 years before being plucked to run the SEC in 2005, justified...
...There are, for sure, legitimate criticisms of the SEC under Cox. The agency, by most accounts, could have taken a more active role in going after firms that misleadingly sold long-term auction-rate securities as cash-like investments, as the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, who filed complaints against a number of companies, has suggested. In April, when the Treasury Department put out a blueprint for reforming financial markets, which included a possible abolition of the SEC, Cox probably didn't bolster his staff's spirits by not immediately standing up for his agency's autonomy...