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More and more, workers can barely afford to keep it. In recent years, most people have seen larger chunks of their paychecks going to health-insurance premiums. Indeed, premiums have increased 10 times faster than incomes, according to a study released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation last Wednesday. In 2005, the average American family paid 30% more for health coverage than it did in 2001, while incomes rose only 3% in the same period. In dollar figures, that's a $2,500 price increase each year. What's more, the study found, the number of private companies offering health...
...been 40 years - almost to the day - since Elkhart, Indiana, had last seen a presidential candidate in the flesh. Its local paper, The Truth, had commemorated the anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy's visit last Friday, wistfully editorializing that it wished one of this year's contenders would come to town and try to recreate the magic of the rally at which 3,000 people had gathered to hear RFK on Main Street...
Municipal property taxes will be going up in Cambridge, mostly to offset increased costs for employing city workers, Cambridge City Manager Robert W. Healy told local officials at yesterday’s hearing on the city’s budget for fiscal year 2009, which begins July 1. The budget includes provisions for new full-time police officers and a transitional jobs program. “I think there are some major miracles in this budget,” said Cambridge City Councillor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72. “I think that the City of Cambridge...
More than a month after Zimbabwe went to the polls, electoral authorities on Friday finally announced a result in the presidential race: a do-over. The Zimbabwe Election Commission said opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai had won 47.9% of the vote to President Robert Mugabe's 43.2%. That means that, officially, no candidate has won an outright victory of more than 50%, a scenario which, under Zimbabwean electoral law, mandates a second round run-off within three weeks. "Since no candidate has received the majority of the valid vote cast... a second election shall be held on a date...
...role of Robert C. Darnton ’60—the head of the University library system, who is technically in charge of all of Harvard’s collections—is more to facilitate collaborative enterprises, like when Harvard’s various libraries pooled their money to create the unified, electronic Hollis catalog in the 1990s...