New York Times (22.06-2016) The Obama administration said Wednesday that the financial outlook for Medicare’s hospital insurance trust fund had deteriorated slightly in the last year and that Social Security still faced serious long-term financial problems.
CNN (21.06.2016) Good news for anyone looking to start a family: Paid parental leave for fathers is no longer a unicorn.
The Washington Post (21.06.2016) A new study predicts that the federal forecast of national health care spending under President Obama's signature health law was a big overestimate — by $2.6 trillion over a five-year period.
The Washington Post (30.05.2016) One of the nation’s largest multi-employer pension funds said that it is out of ideas for ways to save itself from an impending failure.
Financial Times (23.05.2016) America’s middle class is losing ground. Wage stagnation, economic insecurity and rising inequality have become the defining issues of the presidential campaign. Yet as politicians search for a response, they must also grapple with the changing nature of employment. The “fight for $15”, the nationwide campaign for a big rise in the federal minimum wage, is of little relevance to the growing numbers working without the traditional relationship of employer and employee in the so-called gig economy.
Reuters (18.05.2016) When cigarette smokers quit, societal healthcare costs immediately plunge, a new study shows.
Stanford Graduate School of Business (09.05. 2016) The United States is the only country among 37 developed nations that doesn’t offer paid maternity leave. Estonia, on the other hand, offers almost two years of paid leave for mothers.
The Guardian (05.05.2016) More than 2,000 physicians want a single-payer system similar to Canada’s and say the Affordable Care Act didn’t go far enough
Reuters (05.05.2016) The Social Security "file-ocalypse" came and went, and the system is still standing. Workers are claiming benefits and the Social Security Administration still is making payments.
nytimes.com (21.10.2015) Does welfare corrupt the poor? Few ideas are so deeply ingrained in the American popular imagination as the belief that government aid for poor people will just encourage bad behavior.
