Facebook, Twitter, More Social Media Face Push From Investors Over Control Ahead of US Inauguration
The effort follows the storming of the US Capitol last week by supporters of President Donald Trump. By Reuters | Updated: 16 January 2021 12:28 IST
Pension fund managers asked companies to continue to flag misleading content
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Pension fund managers and religious investors on Friday asked top social media companies to step up their content control efforts to reduce the threat of violence ahead of the inauguration of US President-elect Joe Biden next week.
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Writing op-eds won’t solve N.J. doctor shortage | Letter
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In their recent op-ed, ”Here’s how we fix New Jersey’s doctor shortage ….,” U.S. Reps. Josh Gottheimer, D-5th Dist., and Bill Pascrell Jr.,D-9th Dist., correctly identify the cap on the number of graduate medical education slots in New Jersey (and the rest of the country) as the main cause of the physician shortage.
What the lawmakers fail to address is the reason for that cap. The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) of 1985 set this cap because the primary source of funding for these residency slots is the Medicare system. In order to increase the cap, Medicare funding would need to increase. Since that system is already on the brink of bankruptcy, that can’t happen without a substantial increase in Medicare revenue supported by taxes.
States Increase Tabs They Keep on Municipalities’ Fiscal Health Chapter 9 bankruptcies and debt defaults have driven a surge in monitoring and the localities seem to appreciate it. Mike Maciag | November 2016
When New York state released the latest scores for its fiscal stress monitoring system this fall, a few local governments received a bit of unwanted news. Two cities (including Albany), four counties and two small towns were deemed to be under “significant fiscal stress” the system’s most severe designation.
Those localities are hardly the only places to find a spotlight being trained on their fiscal woes. A growing number of states are either establishing new systems or strengthening existing initiatives aimed at monitoring the fiscal health of their localities. In all, a recent Pew Charitable Trusts study found that 22 states regularly review local government finances to detect fiscal distress or assess fiscal c