Six months later, just as Eisenberg was about to ask Amgen for a $100,000 grant for a university study, Amgen came back with some new math: Up Aranesp's share of epoetin spending to 65% or you'll only be eligible for the lowest rebate tier, says Eisenberg.
In January, Brown proposed spending $500 million on low-carbon transportation programs in the coming year, including $230 million on the primary low-emission rebate program for consumers and $30 million to expand the programs targeted to low-income residents in the San Joaquin Valley and Los Angeles.
The bill also includes $28 billion in tax cuts for individuals -- including one-time payments of $600 to couples and $300 to single people whose incomes were too low to receive rebate checks under the tax bill signed into law by President Bush this year -- and $12 billion to help states bolster programs for people who have lost jobs.
The harshest aspects for women include cuts to family payments that squeeze single parent families, lower increases to pensions, and freezing superannuation contributions as well as cutting the low-income super rebate.
In addition to having been passed over by the last rebate, low-income people are more likely than wealthier people to spend any windfall they receive -- and prompting people to spend more is the whole point of the exercise.
The prices are relatively low, and the rebates and interest rate reductions make them bargains.
Prices are relatively low, and the rebates and interest-rate reductions make them bargains.
Foreign companies that were once lured to massive manufacturing parks and zones with low costs and rebates now feel at a disadvantage compared to local manufacturers who seem to be increasingly favored by the government.
Edmunds.com analysis of February incentive deals, which include cash rebates, low finance rates and special lease deals as a percentage of average sticker price for each segment shows large trucks averaged the highest, at 14%, and luxury sports cars averaged the lowest, at 2.9%.
The two parties also appear to have reached a general agreement on providing a one-time tax rebate to low- and moderate-income workers.
