Raising the Age of Eligibility for Medicare to 67: An Updated Estimate of the Budgetary Effects – October 24, 2013 “Medicare, one of the federal government’s largest programs, provides health care benefits primarily to elderly people. The usual age of eligibility for those benefits is 65, although certain people qualify for the program earlier. (Medicare… Continue Reading
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New Report Recommends Alternative Plan for Implementing the Volcker Rule
A Better Path Forward on the Volcker Rule and the Lincoln Amendment by James D. Cox, Jonathan R. Macey and Annette L. Nazareth “Two late additions to Congress’s response to the financial crisis have proved to be among the most complex and challenging for U.S. financial regulators to put into place. The degree of difficulty… Continue Reading
Debt Savers in Defined Contribution Plans
Debt Savers in Defined Contribution Plans, Size, Causes, and Solutions, Matt Fellowes, Founder & CEO of HelloWallet; Jake Spiegel, Research Associate at HelloWallet “The average 401(k) and other defined contribution (DC) plan participant now defers over 8 percent of their annual income toward retirement savings through their plan and social security taxes, making it one of the largest expenses for… Continue Reading
National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day
“Saturday, October 26 is National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. Between 10:00am and 2:00pm, you can bring your unwanted prescription drugs or over-the-counter medicines to a collection site near you. Enter your ZIP code to find your nearest collection site. Properly disposing of medicines is important to human health and the environment. Here are a few… Continue Reading
Unemployment Insurance: Programs and Benefits
CRS – Unemployment Insurance: Programs and Benefits, Julie M. Whittaker, Specialist in Income Security; Katelin P. Isaacs, Analyst in Income Security. September 17, 2013 “Various benefits may be available to unemployed workers to provide income support. When eligible workers lose their jobs, the Unemployment Compensation (UC) program may provide up to 26 weeks of income… Continue Reading
TRAC: Rise in Social Security lawsuits
“Over the past five years, the number of Social Security civil lawsuits filed in federal courts has risen over 60 percent, according to the latest available case-by-case federal court data analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). During September 2013 the government reported 1,757 new filings of this sort, up 14 percent from a… Continue Reading
TIME – America’s Mood Map: An Interactive Guide to the United States of Attitude
“For a country that features the word United so prominently in its name, the U.S. is a pretty fractious place. We splinter along fault lines of income, education, religion, race, hyphenated origin, age and politics. Then too there’s temperament. We’re coarse or courtly, traditionalist or rebel, amped up or laid-back. And it’s no secret that a lot of… Continue Reading
WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2013
“This is the eighteenth global report on tuberculosis (TB) published by WHO in a series that started in 1997. It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic and progress in implementing and financing TB prevention, care and control at global, regional and country levels using data reported by 197 countries and territories… Continue Reading
Commentary – New York has more homeless than it has in decades
Ian Frazer: “…during the twelve years of the Bloomberg administration, the number of homeless people has gone through the roof they do not have. There are now two hundred and thirty-six homeless shelters in the city. Imagine Yankee Stadium almost four-fifths full of homeless families; about eighteen thousand adults in families in New York City… Continue Reading
Release of latest version of Emily Dickinson Archive
“The Emily Dickinson Archive makes high-resolution images of Dickinson’s surviving manuscripts available in open access, and provides readers with a website through which they can view images of manuscripts held in multiple libraries and archives. This first phase of the EDA includes images for the corpus of poems identified in The Poems of Emily Dickinson:… Continue Reading
Trends in College Pricing 2013
Trends in College Pricing “provides information on changes over time in undergraduate tuition and fees, room and board, and other estimated expenses related to attending colleges and universities. The report, which includes data through 2013-14 from the College Board’s Annual Survey of Colleges, reveals the wide variation in prices charged by institutions of different types… Continue Reading
Court Rules Presidential Directives are Not Subject to FOIA but Orders Release of Additional Documents to EPIC
“A federal court has issued an opinion in EPIC v. NSA, EPIC’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit concerning the government’s policy for the security of American computer networks. As a result of the lawsuit, EPIC obtained documents that the National Security Agency had withheld from the public. The documents concern NSPD 54, a presidential policy directive outlining the scope of the NSA’s authority over… Continue Reading
