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...unveiled at least draft legislation - must include in its draft a plan to pay for reform. The three Democrats (led by Finance chairman Max Baucus of Montana) and three Republicans (led by Chuck Grassley of Iowa) trying to hammer out a bipartisan agreement behind closed doors have made some progress on reaching a consensus. In addition to scrapping a requirement that employers provide workers with insurance, the senators are in favor of the excise tax and are reportedly targeting benefit packages that are worth more than $25,000 a year. As Len Nichols, director of the Health Policy Program...
...basic rights of migrants, but they will not solve the vast array of risks that migrants face everyday in the work place. Multilateral frameworks "need the awareness of all sectors to provide protection to migrant workers," says Premjai Vungsiriphaisal, researcher at the Asian Research Center for Migration. Tragically, progress didn't come in time for Siti Hajar. There's hope that it will for thousands of other women like...
...modern factories surrounding it. When the boxy building first opened in 1980, the same year as the park, its first officials were key players in developing Hsinchu into the premier center for Taiwan's electronics industry. Today, though, the idea that a bunch of bureaucrats can engineer industrial progress seems as out-of-date as the tattered furniture in the office's dark hallways. Read "Taiwan Scores Invite to WHO Meeting...
...have to start to turn that tide over the next 12 to 18 months." Even as Mullen was hoping for a year and a half to turn things around, Defense Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged on the same day that the U.S. public is war-weary and that progress must come quickly. "After the Iraq experience, nobody is prepared to have a long slog where it is not apparent we are making headway," Gates told the Los Angeles Times. "The troops are tired; the American people are pretty tired." (See pictures from the front lines of the battle in Afghanistan...
Gates and other Americans eager to see rapid progress in Afghanistan need to know that turning the situation around - even with added troops and money - will require "lasting strategic patience," says Cordesman. Even then, they may want to recalibrate their expectations. "Many aspects of the progress required can only move at an Afghan pace," Cordesman writes, "and must be achieved on Afghan terms." But the question of whether America has the patience to maintain its commitment on such an extended time frame is precisely what has Gates worried...