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WSJ – Big Slide in 401(k)s Spurs Calls for Change: “About 50 million Americans have 401(k) plans, which have $2.5 trillion in total assets, estimates the Employee Benefit Research Institute in Washington. In the 12 months following the stock market’s peak in October 2007, more than $1 trillion worth of stock value held in 401(k)s …
Squeezed! Caught between Unemployment Benefts And Health Care Costs, January 2009, by Families USA Foundation. “This report shows that, to maintain their employer-based health coverage under COBRA [Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986], most unemployed people would have to devote an unrealistically high proportion of their incomes to health insurance. For many, it would …
Follow up to previous posting, Oversight Committee Holds Hearing on EPA’s New Ozone Standards, this recently released memo from DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel: Assertion of Executive Privilege Over Communications Regarding EPA’s Ozone Air Quality Standards and California’s Greenhouse Gas Waiver Request (June 19, 2008) (added 1/08/09).
The Upside of the Downturn Time to Work on Your Know How: Knowhow expert Gretta Rusanow highlights content as the focus for law firm knowledge management plans this year.
News release: “House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) introduced [on January 9, 2009] H.R. 384, the TARP Reform and Accountability Act of 2009, to amend the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) provisions of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA). The legislation will strengthen accountability, close loopholes, increase transparency, and require Treasury …
“Protected Person” Status in Occupied Iraq Under the Fourth Geneva Convention (March 18, 2004) (added 1/08/09) Status of Taliban Forces Under Article 4 of the Third Geneva Convention OF 1949 (February 7, 2002) (added 1/08/09) Authority of the President Under Domestic and International Law to Use Military Force Against Iraq (October 23, 2002) (added 1/08/09) …
Monthly Budget Review, January 2009: Based on the Monthly Treasury Statement for November and the Daily Treasury Statements for December. “CBO estimates that the Treasury Department will report a federal budget deficit of $485 billion for the first quarter of fiscal year 2009, $378 billion higher than in the same period last year. That figure …
