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A crisis within a crisis: Insurance rates skyrocket for child care centers

Work Life

Then, over the summer, she got a notice in the mail from the center’s liability insurance company that it was dropping the center’s policy. Even though the center’s licensing and accreditation were never at stake, the insurer said it would no longer cover the program.

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The Connection Cure: An Interview with Julia Hotz

Mad in America

But it’s also about access to food, safe and reliable transportation, and other basic resources. Social prescriptions, like I said, also apply to food, money, housing support, legal support—because those things affect our health too, right? We were outside, growing our own food to share with our community. Not so much.

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Climate Protection Could Soon Be Part of Your Employee Benefits Package

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Climate change funding for special equipment Some companies may invest in critical emergency supplies to distribute to employees during a disaster, such as bottled water, shelf-stable food, air purifiers, generators and solar-powered radios.

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‘We are somewhat invisible’: Why home care work is so hard—and so critical

Work Life

It might come as little surprise that working in retail or fast food ranks as one of the most common jobs in the U.S. Between the low pay and limited benefits, home care agencies have struggled to retain workers, especially as fast food and retail jobs have grown more appealing due to minimum wage increases. And it’s still that way.”

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Being a U.S. Olympic athlete is not the windfall you think it is

Work Life

Meanwhile the cost of competition at a world-class level — travel, lodging, equipment, fees, and so on — is also extremely high, averaging $12,000 a year. Some American Olympians sleep in a car at night or without sufficient food or adequate health insurance, the report found.

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Lessons From Past Recessions

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brokerage accounts, selling a second car or hobby equipment, potentially downsizing, etc.)? What are my basic monthly living expenses (including food, shelter, health insurance, utilities, phone, transportation and childcare)? How much cash can I quickly access if needed (i.e.,

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Lessons on Creating a Business Emergency Plan From Maine-Based Company Better With Buckwheat

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They’d only been working there since September 2022, with plenty of new equipment and refurbished walls, floors and installations. He says he talked with one of the company’s board advisers who had gone through a fire disaster at a food company, and he spoke with others who had experienced floods.