| Above the Fold |
April 18, 2012 |
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| Food stamps, federal pensions face GOP cuts |
| By Andrew Taylor |
Republicans controlling the House are targeting food stamps, federal employee pensions, tax breaks for illegal immigrants and subsidies under President Barack Obama's health care law in a multifaceted drive to swap cuts to domestic programs for big Pentagon cuts scheduled next year…Read more
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| Critical illness policies tend to be small |
| By Kathryn Mayer |
| About half of critical illness insurance buyers purchased individual policies providing benefits of $20,000 or less, according to research from the American Association for Critical Illness Insurance and General Re Life Corp.…Read more |
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| Overheard on BenefitsPro |
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 The audit report states that the teacher's pension fund is HEALTHY. It is financially sound. http://www.michigan.gov/docume... You might find it interesting to note that the fund has over 836,000 shares of APPLE which means over a $200 million increase in assets since September.
It would be nice if legislators started making honest data based decisions. It would be even nicer if legislators would give the current reforms a chance to take effect. Personally I believe this is the end of public education. For profit institutions will be the norm.
-- Ck, Michigan teachers decry changes to pension, retirement health care plans
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