Article: Premium pain: Colorado employers are taking creative steps to curb health-insurance hikes.(attitude at altitude)

Article: California Health Insurance Premiums Continue Double-Digit Increases, Increasing 11.4 Percent in 2004 - 61 Percent since 2000, New Survey Finds.
Business Wire;  December 16, 2004 ;     700+ words ......year. PPOs increased their market share from 29 percent in 2003 to 36 percent in 2004, according to the survey. The percentage of California employers offering health insurance to their workers was 67 percent in 2004, about the same as in 2003. As with...workers in California contributed $2,580 ...

Article: When asked, only 17 percent of all Americans have ever heard of NAM.
Manufacturing & Technology News;  June 16, 2009 ;     467 words ......Interactive if they knew about NAM, only 17 percent said yes. More people have heard of PhRMA...Research and Manufacturers Association (19 percent); APTA, the American Public Transportation Association, (19 percent); the Heritage Foundation (27 percent...

Article: Increase in Health Insurance Premiums Slows to 8.2 Percent in California; 2005 Rise Is Still More Than Twice the Rate of Inflation; State's Employers Remain More Likely to Offer Coverage than Counterparts in Other States.
Business Wire;  December 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Educational Trust. While the percentage of employers offering...declined nationwide to 60 percent, a nine-point drop since 2000, the percentage of California employers...health insurance (67 percent) remains relatively...cost of premiums, 38 percent of California's large...in 2006. ...

Article: 22 percent of men always or often keep their resolutions in the new year, versus 14 percent of women.(take 5)
New Hampshire Business Review;  January 2, 2009 ;     42 words ...According to a survey by Dorthy.com and conducted by Harris Interactive, 22 percent of men always or often keep their resolutions in the new year, versus 14 percent of women. Howewer, 74 percent of women say they're making resolutions as opposed to 58 percent of men.

Article: The 'mythical' 5 percent: what makes a successful programmer is not all codes and commands.(an executive view)(Viewpoint essay)
Tooling & Production;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......behave. The statistics are sobering: 50-80 percent of programming projects fail. These numbers...even more fascinating metric is this: 5 percent of programmers are 20 times more productive than the other 95 percent. Let's say that this follows the 80-20...

Article: UN says global tourism falls 8 percent
AP Worldstream;  July 2, 2009 ;     136 words ......Tourism Organization says international tourism fell 8 percent between January and April compared to the same period...forecast downward. It predicts tourism will decline by 4 percent to 6 percent this year, but says the decline's pace should slow...

Article: New Hampshire's unemployment rate in May fell to 3.9 percent, down from 4.0 percent in April.(Concord)
New Hampshire Business Review;  June 22, 2007 ;     32 words ...Concord: New Hampshire's unemployment rate in May fell to 3.9 percent, down from 4.0 percent in April. The New Hampshire rate was more than a half-point lower than the national rate of 4.5 percent in May.

Article: French Polls: Sarkozy Gets 53 Percent
AP Online;  May 6, 2007 ;     15 words ...PARIS - Polls say Nicolas Sarkozy got 53 percent of vote, to 47 percent for Socialist Segolene Royal.

Article: 467K jobs cut in June; jobless rate at 9.5 percent
AP Online;  July 2, 2009 ;     700+ words ......the unemployment rate up to a 26-year high of 9.5 percent, suggesting that the economy's road to recovery will...months, and that the jobless rate would rise to 9.6 percent from 9.4 percent in May. If laid-off workers who have given up looking...

Article: Arkansas' unemployment rate rose one-tenth of a percent in June to 5.6 percent. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
Arkansas Business;  July 14, 2003 ;     29 words ...* Arkansas' unemployment rate rose **-tenth of a percent in June to 5.6 percent. U.S. unemployment advanced three-tenths of a percent to 6.4 percent. *[Text unreadable in original source]

Article: June jobless rate seen rising to 9.6 percent
AP Online;  July 2, 2009 ;     700+ words ......economists predict the jobless rate will rise to 9.6 percent in June from 9.4 percent in May. That would mark a 26-year high. The rising...rate over the next year. It's expected to hit 10 percent this year. Many think it could rise as high as...

Article: Turkish economy shrank 13.8 percent in Q1
AP Worldstream;  June 30, 2009 ;     330 words ...Turkey's economy shrank by a painful 13.8 percent in the first quarter compared to the same...announced on Tuesday. Exports declined by 41 percent in the year to May while imports dropped by 43.9 percent, the institute said. Exports to European...

Article: India says growth could revive to 7.5 percent
AP Worldstream;  July 2, 2009 ;     570 words ......and said growth could revive to as much as 7.5 percent this year if the U.S. economy bottoms out by September...for the fiscal year through March slowed to 6.7 percent from an average of 8.8 percent in the previous five years. The speed at which...

Article: Arkansas' unemployment rate fell in December to 5.5 percent, down a half-percentage point from November's 6.0 percent.(Business Briefs)
Arkansas Business;  January 19, 2004 ;     44 words ...Arkansas' unemployment rate fell in December to 5.5 percent, down a half-percentage point from November's 6.0 percent. One year ago, state unemployment was 5.4 percent. Nationally, the U.S. unemployment rate fell to 5.7 percent from 5.9 percent, but new job growth was relatively flat.