How Booming Industry in the New Southeast is Affecting Health Insurance

If you feel you're one step away from the poorhouse, you may very well be right when it comes to your health insurance.  Throughout the United States, the economic boom that has fueled growth in most industries is not translating to higher wages or benefits (such as health insurance) for most workers.  Quite the opposite, in fact.  For the first time since the early 20th century, a majority in the Southeast are now just one
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Safety Net Health Centers Struggle To Meet Demand (KDKA Pittsburgh)

The health care safety net is straining. Just look at Jeffrey Taylor's parking lot. Taylor oversees a community health center for the poor in this suburb a dozen miles east of downtown Atlanta. The center, a modest one-story brick building on a hillside, has never been busier. People who recently lost their jobs and health insurance fill the waiting rooms, and their cars jam into the clinic's ...
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'Safety net'
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A WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF ACTIVITY AT THE 2009 GEORGIA GENERAL ASSEMBLY - Atlanta Journal Constitution

A WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF ACTIVITY AT THE 2009 GEORGIA GENERAL ASSEMBLY Atlanta Journal Constitution,  USA Under Perdue’s latest plan, Medicaid reimbursements for hospitals, doctors and other providers will be cut, state employees will have to pay higher health insurance premiums and agencies will have to cut $69 million on top of the 10 percent-plus cuts ...
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Louisiana's Health Lead, Alan Levine To
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Yet again, Perdue slashes Georgia's state budget - Forbes

WRBL Yet again, Perdue slashes Georgia's state budget Forbes, NY Even with the stimulus cash, Perdue's blueprint for the fiscal year that begins July 1 calls for the state's roughly 100000 employees to ante up at least five percent more for health insurance costs starting in January. And he is ordering another $69 ... Perdue cuts deep, won’t refuse funds Atlanta Journal Constitution Yet again, Perdue slashes budget WTVM Perdue lowers 2010 budget estimate; state employees
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Legitimation in Georgia

... we ask for joint legal custody and "standard visitation" time. You may have heard the term "standard visitation," and in the Atlanta area, it generally means every other weekend (Friday evening through Sunday evening) with alternating holidays and two weeks of ... of 2007, the Court will use child support worksheets to determine the correct amount of child support. In general, the child support worksheets include both parents' income, costs for health insurance, daycare,
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