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...falling real estate markets and rising property taxes," says Kurt Wenner, research director at Florida Tax Watch in Tallahassee. A 2008 state reform, as well as another scheduled to go into effect next year, has reduced some of Florida's property-tax burden by making the cap more generous and accessible to more residents. But because of arcane provisions in the homestead law, government appraisers can tell a homeowner that although his house's current market value may be as depressed as a Florida sinkhole, its taxable value is still high or rising. More important, many of the state...
Warren's dealings with Geithner hit some bumps early on too. After he took office, the panel requested for months that Geithner testify before it; he ignored the request at first but eventually relented. "The most generous interpretation would be that he was staggeringly busy, and to be well prepared for a hearing takes time," Warren says of Geithner, who testified in April. "The less generous interpretation would be that ... we were not on the best of terms." She insists that things are now going more smoothly...
...Kennedy School's graduating class and 5 percent of the graduating class of the Business School each year is composed of former service members. Day said that there are currently between 85 and 90 veterans at Harvard, although in planning for Yellow Ribbon, financial aid officials used a "generous" estimate of up to 160 veterans arriving on campus.Donahue and Day both said that the VA's late finalization of the Program's details complicated the University's participation this year."The VA finalized the program in March and April, and by then, most of Harvard's schools had admitted classes...
...make sure that people who now get coverage from their employers cannot drop it in favor of being insured through a government program (which would, in many cases, put at least part of their health costs on the back of the taxpayer). Finance Committee members also are considering how generous to make the basic benefits that would be offered under health reform, since the more medical services that they insist be offered, the more it will cost the government. Additionally, they are looking for other ways to squeeze money out of the Medicare program...
...sliding scale to people who earn up to 400% of the poverty level - in other words, $43,320 for an individual and $88,200 for a family. That is about the level that the Senate Finance Committee is expected to come up with as well, but is significantly less generous than the early draft by the HELP Committee, which would provide subsidies to those earning up to 500% of the poverty level. (Read "The Republicans Weigh In with a Health-Care Plan...