Taxpayers may be able to write off cash donations made to relief efforts in Haiti on their 2009 income tax returns. The U.S. House unanimously passed a bill Wednesday that would make donations made after Jan. 11 and before March 1 deductible for 2009. The goal is to encourage donations beyond the $275...
Employers Sharply Raise Workers' Share of Health Costs
Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal
By AVERY JOHNSON Employers passed health-insurance costs onto employees at a sharply higher rate this year, and businesses' premiums grew more slowly than they have in a decade, according to an annual survey of...
U.S. employers push increase in cost of healthcare onto workers
KDVR
KDVR
Reporting from Washington - As employers struggle with rising healthcare costs and a sour economy, U.S. workers for the first time in at least a decade are being asked to shoulder the entire increase in the cost of...
Survey: Big Employers Expect 2011 Health Cost Hike
Insurance Newsnet
Insurance Newsnet
Copyright: The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Source: Associated Press Wordcount: unknown INDIANAPOLIS -- Large employers expect their health care benefit costs to rise 8.9 percent next year, and more will ask...
Employers shifting more insurance costs to employees
The Miami Herald
The Miami Herald
WASHINGTON -- An annual survey released Thursday finds that workers are paying, on average, about $482 more for job-based family health insurance this year as companies force employees to shoulder more of the burden of...
Employers raise workers' share of health-care costs
Nashville Tennessean
Nashville Tennessean
individual: 9 numChar :2055 -->TOTAL ELEMENTS IN ARRAY: 19 TOTAL CHARACTERS IN ARRAY: 3786 TOTAL CHARACTERS IN PAGES: 2055 LAST PAGE CONTAINS: 1731 -->WASHINGTON As employers struggle with rising health-care costs and...
US private employment slips for first time in 7 months
Yahoo Daily News
Yahoo Daily News
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US private sector employment dropped in August for the first time in seven months, signaling a weakening economic recovery, payrolls firm ADP said Wednesday. Some 10,000 private-sector jobs were...
U.S. Private Sector Employment Decreased by 10,000 Jobs in August, According to ADP National Employment Report
Stockhouse
Stockhouse
Small Businesses Continue to Drive Service-Providing Sector Employment Growth ROSELAND, NJ, Sep 01, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX News Network) -- Private sector employment decreased by 10,000 from July to August on a...
Survey: Employers shift more insurance costs to workers
The Miami Herald
The Miami Herald
WASHINGTON -- An annual survey released Thursday finds that workers are paying, on average, about $482 more for job-based family health insurance this year as companies force employees to shoulder more of the burden of...
Pennsylvania Ranks 22 in Midyear Employment Report -- Manufacturing Index Weakens
The Examiner
The Examiner
The Tri-State area barely squeezes into the top half of this month. Pennsylvania falls at 22, the highest, while Delaware and New Jersey rank 31 and 37 respectively. Weekly unemployment claims rose to 500,000, the...
July's unemployment report shows signs of increasing "under-employment"
The Examiner
The Examiner
Yesterday the BLS released the July Employment report which includes state-level and regional unemployment rates across the country. The national rate of unemployment in July was unchanged at 9.5%. While this is...
Kingsway West Area Action Project helps increase number of people in employment
York Press
York Press
A PROJECT aimed at boosting employment in one of York’s most deprived communities is being hailed as a success after a dramatic drop in the number of people out of work. The Kingsway West Area Action Project was launched...
Survey: Employers still shifting insurance costs to workers
Lexington Herald-Leader
Lexington Herald-Leader
| By Tony Pugh | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON - An annual survey released Thursday finds that workers are paying, on average, about $482 more for job-based family health insurance this year as companies force...



