| Above the Fold |
February 6, 2012 |
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| Senate MLR bill aims to give agents some relief |
| By Elizabeth Festa |
| U.S. Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., chair of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, and Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., have introduced S. 2068, the Access to Independent Health Insurance Advisors Act, a companion bill and a shot in the arm for a medical loss ratio bill in the House that has many supporters but has gained no traction.…Read more |
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| Flexible work models key to driving productivity |
| By Amanda McGrory |
| ManpowerGroup, a provider of work force solutions, maintains that employers should offer flexible work models that include a range of full-time, contingent and virtual skilled workers in order to drive productivity in a volatile economy…Read more |
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| The Pulse |
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| Overheard on BenefitsPro |
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 Ummmm. Let's see. We reported on average weekly for the last how many years about 400K new unemployment claims and the DOL uses the ultimately fudgeable U3 number to pretty much strain credulity by dropping off as many people as necessary to get the number right. We have all the seasonable jobs go away since the Holidays ended and daily reporting for months of major industry layoffs but somehow miraculously the U3 drops again. I wonder how that can happen. 
-- GMiller, Unemployment sinks to 8.3 pct
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