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What Should Coronavirus Response Legislation Look Like?

By Angelica | Mar 24, 2020 | Comments Off on What Should Coronavirus Response Legislation Look Like?

Right now, the public health emergency and financial crisis created by shelter-in-place, social distancing, and quarantine orders must be met with fast legislative response to provide temporary economic relief. Senate Republicans proposed the CARES Act last week, while House Democrats released their own proposal yesterday. The differences between the proposals are huge, raising the issue…

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Tracking State Legislative Responses to COVID-19

By Angelica | Mar 24, 2020 | Comments Off on Tracking State Legislative Responses to COVID-19

Like the federal government, states play a critical role in responding to the novel coronavirus outbreak. Legislators across the country are working to respond as quickly and effectively as possible, while balancing public health risks of legislative sessions for both legislators and the public. Most states typically begin their legislative sessions in January and adjourn…

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2 New Ways to Slash Your Cellphone Bill

By Angelica | Mar 24, 2020 | Comments Off on 2 New Ways to Slash Your Cellphone Bill

Want to knock $100 off your cellphone bill? It might be time for another look at discount wireless carriers. The average monthly cellphone bill is $157, according to J.D. Power. And the average price paid for a phone is $364. But you can have unlimited data, calling and texting on one of the big national…

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What if our response to coronavirus is not about social distancing?

By Angelica | Mar 24, 2020 | Comments Off on What if our response to coronavirus is not about social distancing?

As an emergency physician on the frontlines of the battle against coronavirus, I have stood sentinel to see the transformations that are occurring in and out of the hospital. There are terms that now roll off our tongues that we didn’t know a month ago. “Social distancing” and “shelter-in-place” meant nothing to us as we…

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Zagar Inc. Open for Essential Businesses

By Jo Gardner | Mar 24, 2020 | Comments Off on Zagar Inc. Open for Essential Businesses

Some business manufacturing is considered critical to remain operational in spite of lockdown.  If your manufacturing business is one of them, you know the importance of machines’ efficiency and reliability.  Zagar Inc. has always thought this was a fundamental part of their business focus.  Even now, when so many are locked down in their homes,…

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Next-level inclusion

By Angelica | Mar 24, 2020 | Comments Off on Next-level inclusion

Diversity and inclusion are top priorities in today’s fast-paced and dynamic environment — especially as clients, customers, business partners and the employee pipeline include a broad spectrum of diverse characteristics. Original Article Posted at : https://www.accountingtoday.com/opinion/next-level-inclusion

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Automotive Composites Ramps up Need for Materials Testing

By Jo Gardner | Mar 24, 2020 | Comments Off on Automotive Composites Ramps up Need for Materials Testing

Why does materials testing matter?  Consider that the automotive composites market could reach $12 billion this year.  Future Markets Insights reports the global automoti9ve composites market was estimated at $7.4 billion in 2019, and is projected to grow despite fluctuating economic conditions at a moderate pace.  The effort to continue to reduce the weight of…

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Amid COVID-19, please USMLE Step 1 pass/fail now

By Angelica | Mar 24, 2020 | Comments Off on Amid COVID-19, please USMLE Step 1 pass/fail now

COVID-19 continues to require unprecedented disruptions to medical education. On March 17, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and Liaison Committee on Medical Education recommended that medical schools release all students from clinical duties for two weeks. This effort will both decrease the risk of exposure for students and relieve stretched-thin residents of teaching responsibilities.…

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AIG hires Gero Michel to analytics role with input to ILS product strategies

By Angelica | Mar 24, 2020 | Comments Off on AIG hires Gero Michel to analytics role with input to ILS product strategies

AIG, the giant insurance and reinsurance operator, has appointed Gero Michel to a new role that will see him heading up risk analytics across the reinsurance related brands of Validus, Talbot and the ILS specialist unit AlphaCat. Michel took on the role of Head of Risk Analytics, AIG Re in February of this year, joining…

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Highest Foreclosure Rate in Nation

By Jo Gardner | Mar 24, 2020 | Comments Off on Highest Foreclosure Rate in Nation

Before the cry for foreclosures to be halted, and some of them will be frozen, but not all, where are most of the foreclosures happening in the United States? As housing has slowly healed from the great recession, one state still lags behind the others.  New Jersey’s foreclosure rate dropped along with the rest of…

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