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...workers are bracing for another dose of pain. As this November once again brings open-enrollment season--that annual headache of working out how much more of our paychecks will go to health benefits next year--2007 looks to bring no relief. For the average employee, premiums and out-of-pocket expenses will reach $2,904 a year for a family, up $300 from 2006. That's the pass-along pain of the costs that employers now endure, nearly $9,000 per employee, up an estimated $518 from this year...
...selected to serve on a jury, one trial.After jurors have fulfilled this requirement, they are disqualified from serving again for three years. And although students, along with other unemployed residents, are not paid for their first three days of jury duty, they can be reimbursed for out-of-pocket expenses.Since jury data is taken from census data, the state has no reliable way to track how many jurors are students, says Massachusetts Jury Commissioner Pamela J. Wood. She adds that there is also no central repository with information about the ages of jurors.So without the data unavailable, are students disproportionately...
Harvard’s director of federal relations, Suzanne Day, said the details of the proposal have yet to be announced, but that the requested data about individuals might include information about how long it takes students to graduate, how much students pay out-of-pocket, and whether students transfer between colleges...
...polls give politicians less incentive to tackle health care, the potentially prohibitive cost really seals the deal. In his State of the Union address, President Bush called for expansion of health savings accounts, which require consumers to pay more of care expenses out-of-pocket but allow money not spent on health care to grow in tax-free accounts. But Republicans on Capitol Hill have balked at spending the billions in tax incentives Bush wants for the accounts. Creating tax subsidies so that everyone in the country could purchase health insurance, as some in both parties have called for, would...
Kopchak and others say only punitive damages will give Exxon the incentive to prevent future oil spills. "The industry's perception is that all they have to worry about is the immediate out-of-pocket costs and they can just pollute and pay," says the plaintiffs' lead attorney, Dave Oesting...