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...from university in 1982 most of my friends took a year or more to find a suitable job, and my own field, biology, was disastrous. So I went abroad. Back in my homeland after 18 years in three countries on three continents, I have still not reached the material level of my parents, but I have not had a boring life; I've never had to apply for unemployment benefits and my children are happy about their multicultural background. A bad situation creates wonderful chances. Benno ter Kuile, AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS...
...There is a long history of using the Census to push for better visibility in American political and economic life. Some of the first lobbying came from Eastern Europeans in the 19th century. But the perfection of identity politics in the 20th kicked the conversation to a whole new level - not that there hasn't been some trepidation along the way. Going into the 1970 Census, groups representing people with disabilities tried to keep a question about handicaps off the questionnaire, afraid it would foster stereotypes. Instead, the data that came back helped bolster support for federal programs to help...
...Senate Finance Committee has not yet introduced draft legislation, so it's still unclear what level of Cadillac health benefits would be taxed under the Kerry proposal. But those familiar with the committee's discussions say the tax threshold could be based on either what federal-employee benefits cost or the average cost of insurance nationwide. Nearly 20% of Americans covered by employer-sponsored health insurance have policies costing more than 120% of the national average, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation...
...pricey, so-called Cadillac health-insurance plans, either directly or by taxing the insurer who provides them. The plans given to many Wall Street and Fortune 500 executives, for example, are worth about $40,000 a year. But even if the threshold could be set at such a level that it doesn't apply to many union insurance plans, which in some states are worth upwards of $20,000 a year, that approach is expected to raise no more than one-third of what is needed...
They've got good reason to be nervous. With sales running at less than 10 million units annually - the lowest level in more than three decades - there is still a mountain of inventory sitting with dealers around the U.S. despite deep cuts in production, not only by the bankrupt General Motors Corp. and Chrysler Group LLC, but also by companies such as Toyota, Ford and Nissan. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...