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• Supreme Court Considers Student Loan Bankruptcy Case

  
  blog.scholarships.com — Authority: 133
  The U.S. Supreme Court began hearing arguments today on the intricacies of one student’s 20-year-old debt that could change the way bankruptcy law handles student loan cases. The case, United Student Aid Funds Inc. v Espinosa , goes back to 1992, when Francisco Espinosa, a technical school graduate, filed for ...
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• ObamaCare Will Increase Insurance Premiums

  
  Start Thinking Right — Authority: 474
  One of the fundamental promises of Democrats is that their massive takeover of health care would deliver lower costs, delivering an economy of scale. The problem is that government has never been very good at lowering the cost of anything.  Quite the contrary. And what has always been true before turns out to be ...
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• Bankruptcy: Health insurance for the desperate

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 475
  In The New York Times , reporter Kevin Sack visits Nashville, Tenn. to tell stories from the front lines of health bankruptcy , stories which he folds into larger discussions about health care reform. Apart from compelling anecdotes, Sack’s most interesting angle was that bankruptcy is equivalent to a painful ...
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• Everyday is Black At Wal-Mart Factories

  
  Wake-Up Wal-Mart Blog — Authority: 461
  Our good friend Al Normans take on China Labor Watchs new report: While Wal-Mart shoppers across America pushed and shoved one another today on Black Friday, fighting for first rights to Blu-Ray and High Def televisions, a new report about the retailer’s factories in China paints another kind of black. Everyday ...
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• Private School Educational Opportunities

  
  NYC Private Schools Blog — Authority: 133
  Factors that contributed to the increase in tuition costs for Private Schools were driven, in part, by the increased demands of the parents for their children and the increased expectations of alumni and higher educational facilities. As more money poured into the economy and wealth and privilege weren’t just ...
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• Has America become a ‘business’ that nobody can run?

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  Businesses that survive and prosper must have competitive business plans, clear-cut priorities, and effective cost controls. Most of America’s competitors have aggregate health care costs that are less than half of ours when benchmarked to relative GDP. If this nation is to regain lost ground in global competition ...
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• Should Doctors’ Pay Be Linked to Hospital Readmissions?

  
  WSJ.com: Health Blog — Authority: 683
  Giving hospitals a financial incentive to reduce readmissions isnt enough, an M.D. argues.
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• Unemployment insurance is slamming Pasco schools

  
  Florida Blog — Authority: 150
  The Pasco school district has not laid off any employees this year despite the rough economy. Even so, the district is projecting a deficit in its unemployment insurance costs, chief financial officer Olga Swinson told the School Board today. In the first quarter of 2009-10, the district spent $250,000 on ...
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• A race to the bottom on sweatshop labor

  
  Wake-Up Wal-Mart Blog — Authority: 461
  Walmarts treatment of workers, both in the United States, and abroad, is a major issue that needs serious attention and change. In the case of workers in the US, it seems that Walmart deliberately squeezes every dime out of their workers. Overseas, it seems like workers are mistreated more as a symptom of a ...
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• Paying for Healthcare When $15 Could Save a Life

  
  Perspectives... — Authority: 125
  I was told by one of the local residents that pediatric death due to septic shock is a huge problem. Children coming into the ER in Port Au Prince are carried on foot by their parents, assessed by the physician, and then the family (in the case of sepsis) is told that rehydration (a bag [...]
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• Growth over four years in the number of offshore legal service companies in India

  
  Law Department Management — Authority: 142
  In 2005 there were approximately twenty offshore legal-service providers, according to David Galbenski, Unbound: How Entrepreneurship is Dramatically Transforming Legal Services Today (2009) at 138. “Two years later, in the spring of 2007, there were sixty legal-service companies ready to...
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• More than $60 billion spent in the US to prepare documents for discovery?

  
  Law Department Management — Authority: 142
  “Americas 1,000 largest corporations spend more than $60 billion, or 50 percent of their total legal operating budgets on average, to prepare documents for litigation, which is the single largest legal operating expense for most corporations. The growth of electronically...
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• Clients string out litigation costs because delayed settlement is financially smarter?

  
  Law Department Management — Authority: 142
  Marshall Grossman, a partner at Bingham McCutcheon, is quoted in Litigation 2009, Fall 2009 at 30. He perceives that clients in these malignant economic times may be more reluctant to start lawsuits because of the expense. But, if sued “they...
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• Tech Standards? Or The Wild, Wild, West Of IT?

  
  A Dime a Dozen Small Business, Tech and Talk — Authority: 124
  Gary Hamel writing on the Wall Street Journal blog blasts corporate IT departments for enforcing technology standards with a post titled; Why Don’t IT Departments Give Employees More Freedom? The premise is that if the best tool for the job is something that an employee provides themselves, or downloads from the ...
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• The Costs of the Reverse Mortgage Loans

  
  Home & living - home-living.marc8.com — Authority: 149
  There is no specific formula for the costs of the reverse mortgage loans, because they are taylor made every time for the needs of the applicant, a senior American citizen. However they can exceed the costs of other mortgage types. I have collected the typical costs, which you can use, when you think, whether this ...
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• Please suggest the best option for my dental issue.

  
  Cosmetic Dentistry Guide — Authority: 149
  Q. hi, my front teeth were not straight with the front of my mouth. this has been a problem for over 30 years. 12 months ago i asked the dentist to crown my 4 front teeth so they would look nice, now one tooth is loose and i,m looking at dental implant. do you visit any other part of the country? i live in ...
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• Delhi again among 10 most expensive office markets

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Dec 1 (IANS) Delhi has again joined the list of 10 cities worldwide that command the highest rentals for office space, says a report released Tuesday by global realty consultancy CB Richard Ellis.Mumbai dropped one place to the seventh position, the report titled “The Semi-Annual Global Office Rents” ...
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• Mortgage Yield Spread Premiums & What You Should Know to Save Yourself Money

  
  Mortgage-Blog — Authority: 449
  A Yield Spread Premium (YSP) is a mortgage broker’s profit, which is paid by the lender in exchange for a higher interest rate. It is a way to avoid charging the borrower any out-of-pocket fees and lower up-front closing costs on the borrower’s loan, if they understand the contract. However, most of the time a ...
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• Understanding FHA Mortgage Refinancing – Is it For Me?

  
  Mortgage-Blog — Authority: 449
  You should refinance a mortgage if you have a mortgage or second mortgage with interest rates that are too high. If you have one or two mortgages which are much higher than the going interest rate of today’s market it may be worth refinancing to save some money. You first need to see what the new FHA Mortgage ...
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