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		<title>Wisconsin Pension Plan Among Most Secure</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The protests in Wisconsin over public workers’ pay, benefits and collective bargaining rights have underscored a dilemma facing many states: the cost of public pensions and how cash-strapped governments should pay for them. But the turmoil overshadows a salient point: Wisconsin may have a budget deficit, but its pension system does not. Studies show that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&amp;blog=5540906&amp;post=797&amp;subd=acppboard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Repealing Health Reform&#8217;s Maintenance of Effort Provision Could Cause Millions of Children, Parents, Seniors, and People With Disabilities to Lose Coverage</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of Republican governors have asked Congress to repeal the maintenance of effort provisions of the Affordable Care Act, which generally requires states to hold coverage steady in their Medicaid and CHIP programs until 2014. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities released a paper that highlights the harmful effects such a repeal would have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&amp;blog=5540906&amp;post=757&amp;subd=acppboard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Unions Release Two Reports on the Detrimental Impact of the Senate Excise Tax on FEHBP Health Plans</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reports find that excise tax will have reduce benefits and raise costs for employees WASHINGTON &#8211; Two reports released December 8, 2009 by federal unions found that the so-called “Cadillac” tax on higher-cost health plans contained in the U.S. Senate health care bill would actually affect average plans like those under the Federal Employees Health [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&amp;blog=5540906&amp;post=665&amp;subd=acppboard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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