For each dollar added to school budgets, the costs of maintaining teacher health benefits took a dollar and forty cents.
Mr. Reiff, 53, who is head of global compensation and benefits, took long flights almost 50percentt of the time when traveling.
This seems to be a simple administrative problem: a new GI Bill (offering expanded benefits) took effect this summer, and the bean-counters at the Veterans Affairs Department are still trying to work through the unfamiliar paperwork.
The cards were an interim measure meant to offer relief to seniors (as well as to some people with disabilities) from high prescription-drug prices until the full prescription-drug benefits took effect in 2006.
The number of Americans lining up for an initial week of jobless benefits took an unexpectedly sharp tumble last week from a level elevated by cold weather, a government report showed Thursday.
The number of Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment benefits took an unexpectedly sharp plunge last week, reaching a level not seen since before the economy tumbled into recession in 2001, a government report showed on Thursday.
