• USPS Reprise For Fuel Surcharge TV Commercial

    Updated: 2011-03-31 20:45:41
    In 2008 — the last time Americans faced a spike in the cost of gasoline — the Postal Service launched a television ad to let customers know that unlike the competition, USPS wasn’t going to add surcharges to its pricing to offset rocketing fuel charges. Today, with uncertainty still surrounding fuel costs, USPS has brushed [...]

  • NALC Presidents Meeting Notes – New JARAP 2011 Coming Out

    Updated: 2011-03-31 20:45:41
    A New Joint Alternate Route Adjustment Process (JARAP) is coming out. The JARAP is an agreement between USPS and NALC to jointly evaluate and adjust routes to as near as eight hours as possible. A few highlights of the meeting: A new agreement will be announced on Wednesday. It will be called JARAP 2011. It [...]

  • APWU President To Testify At House Committee Hearing

    Updated: 2011-03-31 20:45:41
    APWU President Cliff Guffey has been asked to testify about the union’s tentative Collective Bargaining Agreement before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, whose powerful chairman has publicly condemned the new agreement and said it is too generous to postal employees. Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) said the April 5 hearing will “examine the [...]

  • Accenture Adds Digital Mail to Postal Portfolio

    Updated: 2011-03-31 20:45:41
    Mail volumes expected to decline by more than 40 percent by 2020; digital mail, delivered to a secure online mailbox, to become important new revenue stream for global posts LONDON; March 30, 2011 – Expanding its line of postal services, Accenture (NYSE: ACN) today announced it will enable postal agencies worldwide to offer digital mail [...]

  • Wisconsin GOP May Ignore Judge’s Warning On Collective Bargaining Law

    Updated: 2011-03-31 20:45:41
    Wisconsin’s Republican leaders appear to be taking the same confident and bullish approach to implementing their divisive collective bargaining law that they took to passing it, suggesting they may ignore a judge’s warning there would be consequences for moving ahead while challenges to the law are pending. Gov. Scott Walker and his allies in the [...]

  • NAPUS Responds To USPS Proposed Changes To Post Office Closing Process

    Updated: 2011-03-31 20:45:41
    NAPUS Communicating with Congress, and Meeting with Postal Regulators on USPS Proposed Changes to Post Office Closing and Consolidation Process NAPUS President Bob Rapoza and Director of Government Relations Bob Levi are talking with key Members of Congress and postal regulators concerning the Postal Service’s plans to amend postal regulations to streamline the Post Office [...]

  • Minnesota Postal carrier indicted for stealing cash and gift cards from mail

    Updated: 2011-03-31 20:45:41
    The following is a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Minnesota: A federal indictment, unsealed earlier today in St. Paul, charges a postal carrier with stealing approximately $4,000 in cash and gift cards from the mail she delivered. The indictment, which was filed on March 16, 2011, charges Michelle Lynn Bressette, age [...]

  • Kentucky Senator Falsely Claims Public Workers Don’t Pay For Pension and Health Plans

    Updated: 2011-03-31 20:45:41
    From ThinkProgress.org Yesterday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) appeared on Fox Business Network to continue this war on labor rights, using his time on the station to attack unions and claim their pay and benefits are too high. At one point during the interview, the senator began attacking “government unions,” saying they are “going to have [...]

  • Ireland still hasn't fixed its broken banking system

    Updated: 2011-03-31 19:07:59
    About the only piece of good news to be drawn from €24bn of additional capital the Irish government is having to inject into the country’s beleaguered banking system is that it is rather less than the €35bn the joint EU/IMF rescue package for Ireland originally envisaged for the purpose. After applying the latest set of [...]

  • Strategic 401(k) Design: Preventing ADP Failures

    Updated: 2011-03-31 16:35:00
    If your 401(k) plan is failing the Actual Deferral Percentage (ADP) test, then it’s time to consider some plan design changes. You need to figure out a way to encourage non-highly compensated employees (NHCEs) to save more retirement money in their 401(k) accounts while keeping benefit costs under control. This post will guide plan sponsors [...]

  • Things worth reading: 31st March 2011

    Updated: 2011-03-31 07:01:02

  • Things worth reading: 30th March 2011

    Updated: 2011-03-30 07:10:36

  • Economists Agree on Urgency of Deficit-Reduction Plan

    Updated: 2011-03-29 20:51:36
    CRFB.org Stimulus.org US Budget Watch Peterson-Pew Commission E-mail list sign up : Subscribe Unsubscribe Search : Home Documents Blog News Events About Contact Recent Posts Budget Negotiations : Will Showmanship or Statesmanship Prevail Economists Agree on Urgency of Deficit-Reduction Plan Concord Coalition Pulls Out the Key Dates from GAO's Long-Term Outlook Line’ Items : Blossoms Edition What the Future Could Hold It's Time to Reform Social Security Spotlight on the States : Minnesota Meet the Generations Generation X By month March 2011 61 February 2011 55 January 2011 59 December 2010 46 November 2010 60 October 2010 53 September 2010 41 August 2010 43 July 2010 60 June 2010 63 May 2010 45 April 2010 64 All Archives By Keyword Budget 197 CBO 100 Congress 224 Deficits and Debt 350

  • Europe opens the floodgates to debt restructuring

    Updated: 2011-03-29 18:09:15
    There are no doubt plenty of reasons for further downgrading Portugal’s sovereign debt, but in confirming such a downgrade on Tuesday, Standard & Poor’s made clear that the primary cause was the concluding statement of the European Council meeting of March 24-25. This confirmed that (i) sovereign debt restructuring is a potential pre-condition to borrowing from [...]

  • Things worth reading: 29th March 2011

    Updated: 2011-03-29 06:52:05

  • Things worth reading: 28th March 2011

    Updated: 2011-03-28 06:51:09

  • It's Time to Reform Social Security

    Updated: 2011-03-25 22:19:22
    CRFB.org Stimulus.org US Budget Watch Peterson-Pew Commission E-mail list sign up : Subscribe Unsubscribe Search : Home Documents Blog News Events About Contact Recent Posts It's Time to Reform Social Security Spotlight on the States : Minnesota Meet the Generations Generation X MARKETWATCH : March 21-24, 2011 Meet the Generations Baby Boomers So Does Social Security Add to the Deficit Ten Former CEA Chairs Call for Intense Negotiations on Long-Term Deficits MY VIEW : Gene Steuerle By month March 2011 56 February 2011 55 January 2011 59 December 2010 46 November 2010 60 October 2010 53 September 2010 41 August 2010 43 July 2010 60 June 2010 63 May 2010 45 April 2010 64 All Archives By Keyword Budget 197 CBO 100 Congress 224 Deficits and Debt 350 Economy 133 Fiscal News 121 Health Care 128

  • "Meet the Generations": Generation X

    Updated: 2011-03-25 20:17:39
    CRFB.org Stimulus.org US Budget Watch Peterson-Pew Commission E-mail list sign up : Subscribe Unsubscribe Search : Home Documents Blog News Events About Contact Recent Posts It's Time to Reform Social Security Spotlight on the States : Minnesota Meet the Generations Generation X MARKETWATCH : March 21-24, 2011 Meet the Generations Baby Boomers So Does Social Security Add to the Deficit Ten Former CEA Chairs Call for Intense Negotiations on Long-Term Deficits MY VIEW : Gene Steuerle By month March 2011 56 February 2011 55 January 2011 59 December 2010 46 November 2010 60 October 2010 53 September 2010 41 August 2010 43 July 2010 60 June 2010 63 May 2010 45 April 2010 64 All Archives By Keyword Budget 197 CBO 100 Congress 224 Deficits and Debt 350 Economy 133 Fiscal News 121 Health Care 128

  • MARKETWATCH: March 21-24, 2011

    Updated: 2011-03-25 13:27:42
    : CRFB.org Stimulus.org US Budget Watch Peterson-Pew Commission E-mail list sign up : Subscribe Unsubscribe Search : Home Documents Blog News Events About Contact Recent Posts It's Time to Reform Social Security Spotlight on the States : Minnesota Meet the Generations Generation X MARKETWATCH : March 21-24, 2011 Meet the Generations Baby Boomers So Does Social Security Add to the Deficit Ten Former CEA Chairs Call for Intense Negotiations on Long-Term Deficits MY VIEW : Gene Steuerle By month March 2011 56 February 2011 55 January 2011 59 December 2010 46 November 2010 60 October 2010 53 September 2010 41 August 2010 43 July 2010 60 June 2010 63 May 2010 45 April 2010 64 All Archives By Keyword Budget 197 CBO 100 Congress 224 Deficits and Debt 350 Economy 133 Fiscal News 121 Health Care

  • Hidden boost for house prices in the Budget

    Updated: 2011-03-25 07:49:39
    House prices look set to be boosted by a multi-billion pound new stream of buy-to-let investment by institutions, including Britain’s biggest insurer, prompted by a little-noticed clause in the Budget. While a good deal of attention focussed on just £250m of new loans, which Chancellor George Osborne said might help 10,000 first time buyers, less attention was [...]

  • Things worth reading: 25th March 2011

    Updated: 2011-03-25 07:09:11

  • So Does Social Security Add to the Deficit?

    Updated: 2011-03-24 20:33:07
    CRFB.org Stimulus.org US Budget Watch Peterson-Pew Commission E-mail list sign up : Subscribe Unsubscribe Search : Home Documents Blog News Events About Contact Recent Posts It's Time to Reform Social Security Spotlight on the States : Minnesota Meet the Generations Generation X MARKETWATCH : March 21-24, 2011 Meet the Generations Baby Boomers So Does Social Security Add to the Deficit Ten Former CEA Chairs Call for Intense Negotiations on Long-Term Deficits MY VIEW : Gene Steuerle By month March 2011 56 February 2011 55 January 2011 59 December 2010 46 November 2010 60 October 2010 53 September 2010 41 August 2010 43 July 2010 60 June 2010 63 May 2010 45 April 2010 64 All Archives By Keyword Budget 197 CBO 100 Congress 224 Deficits and Debt 350 Economy 133 Fiscal News 121 Health Care 128

  • BBC pensions deficit: where is Sir Michael Lyons, licence fee payers' champion?

    Updated: 2011-03-24 13:19:11
    So we finally know how liability for the £1.6 billion BBC pension fund deficit is going to be split. Very roughly speaking, BBC staff will have to cough up one third, about £500 million, through increased contributions and lowered entitlements. Licence fee payers will have to find the other two thirds, through a £900 million payment [...]

  • Things worth reading: 24th March 2011

    Updated: 2011-03-24 07:27:03

  • Budget 2011: squeezed middle to suffer £1bn a year sting in the tail

    Updated: 2011-03-24 06:37:22
    Millions of members of the ‘squeezed middle’ will pay more tax because of a £1bn a year sting in the tail of Budget documents. While 1.1m low-paid people will be spared any need to pay income tax as a result of Chancellor George Osborne’s reforms, tax bills will get bigger further up the income scale. Short-term tax [...]

  • MY VIEW: Gene Steuerle

    Updated: 2011-03-24 00:05:38
    : CRFB.org Stimulus.org US Budget Watch Peterson-Pew Commission E-mail list sign up : Subscribe Unsubscribe Search : Home Documents Blog News Events About Contact Recent Posts Ten Former CEA Chairs Call for Intense Negotiations on Long-Term Deficits MY VIEW : Gene Steuerle Debate BUILDs over Infrastructure Investment Meet the Generations Seniors Ruth Marcus : A Debt Crisis That Requires Compassion” Fiscal Power Rankings Health Care Reform Has Its First Birthday Will It Take a Crisis By month March 2011 50 February 2011 55 January 2011 59 December 2010 46 November 2010 60 October 2010 53 September 2010 41 August 2010 43 July 2010 60 June 2010 63 May 2010 45 April 2010 64 All Archives By Keyword Budget 197 CBO 100 Congress 224 Deficits and Debt 350 Economy 133 Fiscal News 121 Health Care 128

  • Debate BUILDs over Infrastructure Investment

    Updated: 2011-03-23 21:00:10
    CRFB.org Stimulus.org US Budget Watch Peterson-Pew Commission E-mail list sign up : Subscribe Unsubscribe Search : Home Documents Blog News Events About Contact Recent Posts Debate BUILDs over Infrastructure Investment Meet the Generations Seniors Ruth Marcus : A Debt Crisis That Requires Compassion” Fiscal Power Rankings Health Care Reform Has Its First Birthday Will It Take a Crisis We Could've Told You . CNN Money Exclusive : Deficit Pessimist Sees Hope for a Deal By month March 2011 48 February 2011 55 January 2011 59 December 2010 46 November 2010 60 October 2010 53 September 2010 41 August 2010 43 July 2010 60 June 2010 63 May 2010 45 April 2010 64 All Archives By Keyword Budget 197 CBO 100 Congress 224 Deficits and Debt 350 Economy 133 Fiscal News 121 Health Care 128 National Debt

  • Budget 2011: a million low-paid people escape tax but fiscal drag catches others

    Updated: 2011-03-23 14:12:39
    About 1.1m low-paid people will be spared any need to pay income tax by the time Budget announcements take effect, Chancellor George Osborne said. But there will be losers as well as winners from Budget changes. For example, the proposal to switch indexation of personal allowances – or slices of tax-free income – from the Retail [...]

  • Osborne's 'reforming' Budget: more Gordon Brown than Nigel Lawson

    Updated: 2011-03-23 13:50:35
    So there was a pot of gold to fund a limited range of tax giveaways after all – bankers, oil companies and energy companies. The announced cut in corporation tax is very welcome, but it will be more than recouped by additional business taxation elsewhere – on banks, oil and energy companies. This was billed as [...]

  • Things worth reading: 23rd March 2011

    Updated: 2011-03-23 07:12:08

  • Things worth reading: 22nd March 2011

    Updated: 2011-03-22 06:19:18

  • Things worth reading: 21st March 2011

    Updated: 2011-03-21 07:07:01

  • PA pension plans rise as stocks recover

    Updated: 2011-03-09 21:22:18
    SERS and PSERS says they beat their 8% target as stocks rallied last fall

  • Watch Out for Approaching ADP/ACP Correction Deadlines

    Updated: 2011-03-07 19:27:54
    Plan sponsors should check their calendars and be aware that the deadline for making corrective distributions to HCEs (without an excise tax penalty) for a failed ADP or ACP test is quickly approaching. - General deadline is within 2 ½ months after end of plan year (i.e., March 15th for calendar year plans). - The [...]

  • IRS Unveils Details of New Form 8955-SSA

    Updated: 2011-03-04 21:30:08
    In Announcement 2011-21, the IRS released details regarding filing requirements for the new Form 8955-SSA, which will be used to report participants with deferred vested benefits from an employer-sponsored retirement plan. For calendar year plans, the 2009 8955-SSA due date (without extension) will generally be August 1, 2011. As mentioned in our earlier post on [...]

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