| Above the Fold |
August 30, 2011 |
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| Goodbye, COBRA subsidy |
| By Jenny Ivy |
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A federal subsidy providing a 65 percent reduction in the cost for COBRA coverage will end on Sept. 1. Come Thursday, enrollees may be in for a jolt. After the subsidy expires, online health insurance provider eHealthInsurance estimates a 186 percent increase in monthly premiums...Read more |
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| Consumer confidence lowest in 2 years |
| By Anne D'Innocenzio |
| Consumers' confidence in August dropped almost 15 points to the lowest level since April 2009 as worries about the economy fueled the wildest stock market swings since the financial meltdown in 2008...Read more |
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| The Pulse |
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The unions are breaking the back of the job market, why do you think the industrialists are shipping jobs overseas?
