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Health Care
Employer-based health insurance is in decline....
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Corporate Governance: Six Essential Tasks for Boar...
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Early Care and Education
All children deserve the opportunity to start scho...
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Poll: West Virginia Voters Support Public Financing for Court Elections |
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CHARLESTON, W.VA., March 8, 2010-West Virginia voters support public financing of elections for state Supreme Court justices, expressing deep concern that campaign funders currently can buy unfair influence in the courtroom.
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President’s Plan Needs to Fix the Health Exchanges |
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President Obama's health insurance proposal – like both the House and Senate versions of reform – would do much to expand health coverage and improve Medicare. It does not do enough, however, to contain costs. True reform would reduce the cost of health insurance through the competition, economies of scale, and risk spreading achievable through strong and efficient exchanges. However, the President's exchanges will not have sound risk pools and market-based competition. Read the full pres release... |
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NYT Op-Ed: How the G.O.P. Can Fix Health Care |
Health care reform should have two critical goals: reducing costs and covering more people. To meet them, Democrats and Republicans must abandon simplistic, ideologically driven proposals that animate each party's base. Liberals cannot insist on Medicare for all, and conservatives cannot insist on markets for all, plus tort reform. Neither approach will work.
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The "Lost Decade" (Plus Two) For The Budget |
By Joe Minarik
Followers of the issue of the federal budget deficit and the public debt have been worried for years. In fact, typical citizens probably have come to hear experts' warnings as a cross between "The sky is falling!" and "Wolf!"
Now, those cries are beginning to ring true. But many people probably still hesitate to accept the message. Perhaps a picture can begin to make that message clear.
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Building the Case for Investments in Children |
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On Monday, February 1st CED, in partnership with the Economic Club of Grand Rapids and First Steps hosted a forum to discuss the importance of investing in early childhood education. The forum featured keynote speaker David Brooks, Op-Ed Columnist for the New York Times.
The event featured remarks by Doug Devos, President, Alticor; Jerry Tubergen, President & CEO, RDV Corporation and Vice Chair, the Economic Club of Grand Rapids; and Charles Kolb, President, CED.
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Restoring Trust in Corporate Governance: Six Essential Tasks for Boards of Directors and Business Leaders |
CED Statement Aims to Focus Directors and Executives on Governance Essentials in Time of Economic Turmoil and Change
If American business leaders are to restore public confidence in how companies are run, boards of directors must discharge six essential, closely interrelated tasks. That is the message of a new CED policy brief, Restoring Trust in Corporate Governance: The Six Essential Tasks of Boards of Directors and Business Leaders. The brief was written by Ben W. Heineman, Jr., CED Trustee and former Vice President and General Counsel for General Electric Corporation, with the consultation and advice from the CED's Subcommittee on Corporate Governance.
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