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January 22, 2009

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New I-9 Form: Paperwork Reduction in Action?

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The United States Customs and Immigration Service (USCIS), formerly INS until becoming part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has issued a new form I-9, which is used by employers to verify that potential employees have the legal right to work in the United States. The form has been revised to comply with new USCIS regulations concerning which documents can be used for verification...

January 21, 2009

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Bailout Blues: Tax Shelters and Huge Bonu$e$

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The Associated Press recently reported that 600 executives at the banks just bailed out by the U.S. government took in $1.6 billion in salaries, bonuses and perks last year. That comes to about $2.6 million per exec, but we all know that not all execs are created equal. Then came this news from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), which searched publicly available data filed with the Se...

January 20, 2009

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Many Miss Out on Unemployment Insurance Benefits

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Unemployment insurance was commenced in 1935 as a bridge between jobs, but this recession seems to be testing the limits of the system and revealing some inherent cracks. First, not all states run their unemployment programs the same or use the same eligibility standards. The result of this disparity nationwide is that some 37 percent of those laid off fail to qualify for unemployment insuranc...

January 20, 2009

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Chances of Health Care Reform: Check Out This List

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I found this interesting. It was on some far-left (the author called himself progressive, but he was way off the spectrum) blog, and it's a list of who's received the most in campaign donations from the insurance industry, to wit: John McCain (R-AZ) $2,799,156 Barack Obama (D-IL) $2,184,670 Chris Dodd (D-CT) $2,138,446 Earl Pomeroy (Blue Dog-ND) $1,735,356 Charlie Rangel (D-NY) $1,346,785 Ben ...

January 19, 2009

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Analysis Correct, But Proposed Solution Doesn't Add Up

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A group calling itself Physicians for National Health Program (PNHP) has issued a press release revealing the failure of Hillarycare as it was resurrected in Massachusetts by former Governor Mitt Romney (who somehow has now seen the light of his transgressions from Republican orthodoxy). Costs are up, services are hard to get, the state is going broke, and what was once free for the indigent n...

January 19, 2009

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USCIS (nee: INS) Finally Receives Funds to Modernize

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The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) branch of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a $2.6-billion-a-year agency. It is also the paper-jammed and -backlogged agency formerly known as the INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service). Ask anybody who's dealt with the agency in either incarnation and you'll hear horror stories of standing in blocks-long lines before dawn ...

January 18, 2009

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Did FDR Actually Prolong the Great Depression?

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The liberal media are all over themselves anointing Barack Obama as not only the second FDR but also the second Abraham Lincoln (which Obama seems to be vainly promoting himself). Since for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, the blogosphere is already debunking FDR (I don't think anyone would take on Lincoln). Some sites, including Motley Fool and Michelle Malkin, have dredg...

January 17, 2009

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Are New Minimum Wages Fueling Layoffs?

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Many have argued that minimum wage laws price certain people out of the job market skill-wise and also lead to layoffs as small businesses cope with their finances and the added burden of higher wages. In this light, it's notable that fully 40 percent of the 693,000 who lost their jobs in the latest ADP report (November-December 2008) were from small businesses. Arthur Bruzzone, a former Cali...

January 17, 2009

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AHRQ: The (Scary) Little Agency That Thinks It Can

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Can do the impossible, that is, which to prescribe which medicines and medical procedures are both most efficacious and most cost-effective. So far, I can find little proof of AHRQ's accomplishing anything near this goal on the site of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. AHRQ is in the news since it just got a whole new set of fangs in the Obama stimulus plan (aka the Tom Daschle s...

January 17, 2009

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Unions, Schmunions--What, Me Worry?

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For all the celestial disturbance over the proposed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), you wouldn't know it from a poll I just discovered at the Manpower Employment Blawg. The blog posted this question: What is the #1 most frightening employment law issue youâ€™re facing right now? And got these results: 1. Terminations (26%) 2. Discrimination (13%) 3. Medical issues (10%) 4. Haras...

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