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...already taking out federal loans to pay unemployment benefits. But Massachusetts’ unemployment benefit system remains “strong and solvent” for the foreseeable future, bolstered by over $1 billion in trust fund reserves, according to Robb Smith, director of Policy and Planning for the Mass. Labor and Workforce Development Office. From January through November 2008, the state collected $1.4 billion in employer contributions and paid out $1.3 billion in benefits. While employer contribution tax rates are set to increase this year, Smith said unemployment would likely increase as well—he estimated that...
...moving nearly 100,000 m.p.h. faster than previously thought - revolving around the center of the Milky Way at 568,000 m.p.h., announced Mark Reid of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics on Monday at the American Astronomical Society's conference in Long Beach, Calif. Since velocity is related to mass, the 15% increase in solar-system speed translates into a near doubling of mass of the Milky Way, according to Reid's group - and all of that newfound bulk is composed of dark matter...
...inappropriate” because so many civilians in Gaza have, sadly, been killed in the operation. What this sort of calculus ignores, however, is the tens of millions of dollars Israel has invested in bomb shelters throughout the south, the early warning system it has installed, and the mass migration of Israelis from their homes to avoid the murderous rain of rockets falling daily from the sky. Civilian deaths are horrible and tragic, but to suggest that death ought to be the only measure of “proportionality” ignores the fact that, for seven years, Israeli civilians...
...sales, carmakers are hoping to see some signs of life this spring. "We could see year-over-year comparisons improve (i.e., not be down so much!) starting in April 2009 because the market really collapsed in April 2008," says Rebecca Lindland, an analyst with Global Insight in Lexington, Mass...
Various labor and healthcare groups have rallied to the Cambridge Health Alliance’s side in recent weeks, forming a coalition called “Put Patients First” to urge Mass. Gov. Deval L. Patrick ’78 to steer clear of further cuts to Medicaid. At the same time, city councillors and residents have demanded greater budgetary accountability from the CHA and expressed concerns regarding health service cuts that the alliance had made. At a December council meeting, Cambridge Mayor E. Denise Simmons proposed an order that would have withheld the CHA?...