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Employer health insurance is employee compensation

WEBEmployer-sponsored health insurance is a misnomer. Money that an employer putatively “contributes” to a company health insurance plan is simply …

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Family and medical leave needs to work for families

WEBFamily and medical leave is an insurance plan that relies on payroll contributions. To whittle the contribution from the House’s .55 percent of payroll to .2 …

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State of Working Vermont 2021 Public Assets Institute

WEBState of Working Vermont 2021 tells the pandemic story from the perspective of everyday Vermonters. It's laid out chronologically, tracking major developments in the disease and …

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Analyzing Health Care Reform’s Impact on Working Households: A …

WEBDeb Brighton and Paul Cillo (December 2006) This report unveils a new methodology to evaluate the impact of any new health insurance plan on the economic momentum of …

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Vermont’s Middle Class: The Facts Public Assets Institute

WEBBut rising health care costs and Medicaid cutbacks have driven up health insurance premiums and squeezed the middle class. Between 2003 and 2009, Vermont …

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State of Working Vermont 2 21

WEBState of Working Vermont 2021 4 PHASE 1 March-June 2020 The CARES Act expands unemployment benefits to workers not typically covered, extends eligibility by 13 weeks, …

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Worker protections are strained by the COVID-19 crisis

WEBNecessary public health measures could overwhelm Vermont’s unemployment fund. The governor’s order to shutter schools, child care services, bars, and restaurants affects …

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Speaking with one voice on health care Public Assets Institute

WEBVermont is lucky. Even with divided state government and occasional partisan spats, our leaders on both sides of the aisle can agree that taking health care away …

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State of Working Vermont 2022 Public Assets Institute

WEBIn an accessible chartbook, State of Working Vermont 2022 analyzes Census and other data, including wages, jobs, and employment, poverty, household income, and migration …

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Vermont Education Spending: The Facts Public Assets Institute

WEBPDF Version Education spending is not out of control. Education spending as a percentage of the Vermont economy (gross state product) has remained essentially flat since the …

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Policy Areas Public Assets Institute

WEBPolicy Areas In its work on Vermont's tax and budget policy, Public Assets focuses on three areas: health care finance, education finance, and family economic security. We provide …

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Becoming Arizona Public Assets Institute

WEBAll eyes have been on Washington for the last few days as the U.S. finally took a step toward creating a health care system than any civilized country ought to …

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Vermont’s a great place to raise kids

WEBA new study ranked Vermont the #1 state to raise healthy kids. That’s the good news. Vermont often ranks high on quality of life surveys. The question is: Can …

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Minimum wage versus Medicaid

WEBTens of thousands of Vermont workers do not make enough to support their families. At the same time, home health and personal care agencies that hire many of …

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Wages fall short of workers’ basic needs Public Assets Institute

WEBBut Vermont’s 2020 minimum wage was just $10.96 an hour, nearly two dollars lower than what people without children in rural Vermont needed to get by, and …

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Who knows better

WEBWho knows better the needs of a community than the people who live in that community? It’s a good question. This short video about participatory budgeting in New …

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That’s right: Some anti-poverty programs aren’t working

WEBIt’s time to acknowledge that the anti-poverty efforts that haven’t worked are the tax incentives intended to create jobs that pay enough to keep people out of poverty …

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When is a broad-based tax not a broad-based tax

WEBThe proposed rate changes—in effect, a surtax—would have reduced that windfall by about $27 million this year and roughly the same next year. Broad-based …

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Clemmons Family Farm ED Lydia Clemmons to Receive the 2021 …

WEBThe Vermont Community Foundation and the organizing committee for the Con Hogan Award for Creative, Entrepreneurial Community Leadership are pleased to …

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More state control is not the answer Public Assets Institute

WEBTwo years ago, I wrote an op-ed that opened: “The Legislature can work with local communities to improve education, or it can push them around.” This is the …

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