It gives us good conditions, good insurance, economic stability".
He reeled off a litany of statistics that sounded pretty persuasive: better academic test scores than most states, rising income levels, a higher penetration of health insurance, more stability in housing prices than in most of the country.
My dad would tell me to keep my advertising job -- that I had insurance and stability -- and my heart would just sink.
Money and insurance and stability and regularity and a consistent sense of purpose are very powerful, important elements of a happy life.
After five years of relative stability, insurance premiums, prescription-drug prices and other costs have soared.
If the worker averaged less than 30 hours a week (or, technically, 130 hours a month), then the company need not offer insurance in the stability period.
Still, the market "will present opportunities in the long run as governments become more stable and people begin to seek more medical and life insurance, looking for stability," he said.
If an employee's schedule averaged out to full time during the measurement period, then the company would be obliged to offer health insurance in the stability period or pay a penalty.
Once known for consistency and stability, insurance companies have quickly found themselves at a crossroads — either stay the course or adapt to change (as seen in the banking, transportation and the food services industries).
This argument gains theoretical and empirical support by classical concepts on the relationship between species diversity and stability (insurance hypothesis: Yachi and Loreau 1999; portfolio effect: Thibaut and Connolly 2013).
