2021 MAY 24– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News— Finding ways to optimize energy use is critical to keeping up productivity. A team of scientists led by John W. Elrod, PhD, Associate Professor in the Center for Translational Medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, has hypothesized that altered mitochondrial…
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2021 MAY 24– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– Investigators publish new report on Life Science Research. For more information on this research see: An Investigation of Health Insurance Policy and Behavior In a Virtual Environment. PLOS ONE, 2021; 16 (4). PLOS ONE can be contacted at: Public Library Science, 1160 Battery Street, Ste 100, San…
May 23— GLENS FALLS— The Glens Falls Hospital medical staff is raising money for the education fund of the only child of a nurse who was killed last winter in the hospital parking lot. Kristen Stevenson died on Jan. 26 when she was struck by a plow truck. Christopher Mason, president of the Glens Falls Hospital medical staff.
Invest in America, a research group, and Data for Progress, a progressive think tank, surveyed more than 1,200 likely voters in mid-May, with 58% of those polled supporting Biden’ s spending plans, even if Democrats must pass them without Republican support. A majority of voters surveyed, 51% to 32%, prefer Biden’ s plans over a Republican infrastructure proposal…
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee issued the following testimony by Deva A. Kyle, of counsel at Bredhoff and Kaiser, at a hearing entitled “Retirement Security: Building a Better Future”:. After graduating from Georgetown University Law Center in 2004, I worked at the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation serving first as a staff attorney…
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee issued the following testimony by Shai Akabas, director of the Economic Policy Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center, at a hearing entitled “Retirement Security: Building a Better Future”:. My name is Shai Akabas, and I am the director of the Economic Policy Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a…
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee issued the following testimony by Lori Lucas, president and CEO of the Employee Benefit Research Institute, at a hearing entitled “Retirement Security: Building a Better Future”:. We believe that retirement, health, and financial wellbeing benefits serve key functions: These programs support the…
—The Biden administration is facing new pressure to resolve a mystery that has vexed its predecessors: Is an adversary using a microwave or radio wave weapon to attack the brains of U.S. diplomats, spies and military personnel? Confirmation that a U.S. adversary has been conducting damaging attacks against U.S. personnel would unleash calls for a forceful…
The House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures issued the following testimony by Chye-Ching Huang, executive director of the Tax Law Center at the New York University School of Law, as part of a remote hearing entitled “Funding Our Nation's Priorities: Reforming the Tax Code's Advantageous Treatment of the Wealthy”:. The U.S. federal tax system…
Bob Casey, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, this week held a hearing entitled— “Taking Aim at Alzheimer's: Frontline Perspectives and Caregiver Challenges.” In 2020, roughly 11 million individuals provided some form of unpaid care for a person with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia, including 500,000 caregivers in Pennsylvania.
For investors, 2020 was a rollercoaster of epic proportions. Between a pandemic, a market crash, a rebound to record highs and massive government intervention, many investors felt angst as their portfolios hung in the balance. With the changes brought by 2020, it's more important now than ever before to revisit your individual financial plan as you take a look at…
HENDERSONVILLE, N.C.– If Thursday had been a typical morning for Charles Browne, of Hendersonville, he wouldn't have ended up on a 500- mile round trip to Raleigh to collect a $1 million lottery prize. Browne typically begins his day with a stop at Norm's Minit Mart on Kanuga Road in Hendersonville where he gets a Red Bull and his favorite lottery ticket.
Tina Smith, D- Minn., has introduced legislation to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 “to permit retirement plans to consider certain factors in investment decisions.” Patty Murray, D- Wash., and Richard Blumenthal, D- Conn. It was referred to the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. Tina Smith, 720 Hart Senate Office Building,…
He is one of many members of Congress headed south, with GOP Rep. “President Biden's rejection of the successful border policies implemented by President Trump and Republicans in Congress has spurred a flood of unvetted and unscreened illegal aliens to enter our Country,” Hagedorn said in a statement. Republicans have contended Congress should put additional…
For decades, the American economic system and other institutions meant to support economic mobility have largely failed the tens of millions of people in the country who experience poverty every year–and the U.S. tax code is no exception. *Increases the amount of the credit from $2,000 to $3,600 for children ages 5 and under. *Increases the amount of the credit…
Consumer Watchdog and a dozen Fairness for Injured Patients campaign advocates who were harmed by medical negligence and failed by the Medical Board of California will call on the legislature to turn control of the doctor-run Board over to the public, in testimony on Friday. The Fairness Act will restore injured patients' ability to seek justice in the courts…
The law renews two historic sales tax holidays for Florida consumers to prepare for back-to-school and hurricane season. “Thank you to Governor DeSantis for bringing meaningful tax relief to Florida families and driving shoppers to Florida's retail stores with the signing of HB 7061,” said Scott Shalley, president and CEO of the Florida Retail Federation.
John Bel Edwards, D- Louisiana, issued the following news:. John Bel Edwards announced the state is funding a $30 million program to offer voluntary residential buyouts in the Greinwich Terrace neighborhood of Lake Charles, an area that has flooded three times over the past four years, including during this week's heavy rain event. “We've been working with the…
The California Department of Justice announced Friday afternoon that 15 defendants are facing a total of more than 200 felony charges, including grand theft and financial elder abuse. At least 30 victims were convinced to make investments totaling about $5 million in what the California Department of Justice called a “fraudulent scheme” since around…
