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...Communication at Harvard, wrote in an e-mailed statement. Even under the open-access model, authors generally must pay fees to publishers. This has led some professors to worry that the economic downturn will keep lesser-known authors from publishing due to higher fees that may be implemented to offset costs, according to John Saylor, an associate librarian at Cornell. “We’ve just about hit the ceiling on what universities are able to support in terms of subscription costs, especially with the current recession,” Dartmouth Associate Librarian Elizabeth E. Kirk said...
...contends that consumers could actually be hurt by lower fees if banks decide to scrap rewards programs, raise interest rates on credit cards or reinstate annual credit-card fees to offset the lost interchange-fee revenues. (Read "Exposing the Credit-Card Fine Print...
...town halls. In response, several Senators have introduced legislation to scale back those cuts. "I will offer an amendment to grandfather in all the senior citizens on Medicare so that they're not going to be cut from the Medicare Advantage," said Florida Senator Bill Nelson. He plans to offset that by asking pharmaceutical firms to apply the same rebates they currently give to Medicaid patients to Medicare recipients. "That pays for a lot and more," he insists. (See how to prevent illness...
...Qualifying small businesses that offer their employees health insurance would be eligible for a tax credit to offset their contribution to the costs of the policies. An employer with up to 25 full-time employees whose average annual wages are no more than $40,000 would have access to some part of the credit, though only companies with no more than 10 employees who earn an average of less than $20,000 a year would be eligible for the full credit. In 2011 and 2012, the full credit would be up to 35% of a small business's contribution...
...word immigration doesn't appear in the DPJ's platform - the subject remains a touchy one for insular Japan. But the party has a plan to allow more foreign workers into the country to help offset the shrinking labor pool. DPJ lawmakers also want to improve the lives of younger Japanese workers by curbing the hiring of temporary workers by manufacturers, a widespread practice that over the last decade or so has relegated many youth to second-class-citizen status. While older workers hang on to the best jobs, younger workers stuck in temp positions are denied many company...