Lasting legacy of Occupy Wall Street remains unclear
Friday, September 14, 2012 - 17:39 Andrew Burton/Getty Images An Occupy Wall Street banner is seen in Union Square at the end of a march from Zuccotti Park to Union Square on in New York City. Monday marks the one year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. The day protestors set up camp in Zuccotti Park in New York, throughout the fall camps sprang up around the country. Twitter and Facebook were abuzz. Local TV news did liveshots from tents. But the demonstrators were eventually evicted. David Meyer teaches sociology at the University of California at Irvine and he's spent a lot of time studying social movements. Meyer said that it's too early to say what the effects of the Occupy movements are, but he said it did change political rhetoric. A change in rhetoric is a small step towards policy change. Meyer pointed out that President Lyndon Johnson started adopting the Civil Rights movements language before pushing the Voting Rights Act. "What the movement did was pull the debate back a little ...
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United States: Administration Does Not Object To Renewed Effort To Challenge Affordable Care Act’s Constitutionality - Littler Mendelson
U.S. Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. has decided not to challenge Liberty University of Lynchburg, Virginia's petition to have the Fourth Circuit review its case contesting the legality of the Affordable Care Act.
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United Kingdom: Independent Schools & Universities: How To Make The Best Of The New Planning System - DMH Stallard
The Localism Act 2011 received the Royal Assent in November 2011 and has been brought into effect progressively since then.
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Hospitals cash in on patient satisfaction
Monday, October 22, 2012 - 03:41 Adam Berry/Getty Images Under the Affordable Care Act, hospitals can be rewarded for improving patient care. Have you noticed that everywhere you go these days, you're being asked to fill out a consumer survey -- the bank, the cable company, even the hospital. And now, as a way to encourage health reforms, the federal government is tying the results of those hospital surveys to money. That’s prodded hospitals to think more about making patients happy. St. Helena Hospital in northern California has focused on the little things. Little things, says Nia Lendaris, vice president for patient care, like valet parking and massages before surgery and aroma therapy. “We have someone who will say to you, ‘is there a fragrance that would be a good scent for you to have near you,’ she says. “It might be lavender, we’ll give a patient a tissue with a little bit of lavender.” Last year, the federal government began considering patient satisfaction ...
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What makes a company 'too big to fail?'
Monday, October 22, 2012 - 04:34 Carsten Koall/Getty Images Prudential Financial is under federal scrutiny, along with several other companies, for being a "systemic risk." Is Prudential Financial too big to fail? Bloomberg reports that federal regulators are looking into the insurance giant to gauge whether the company is "systemically important." If it is, Prudential could be in for a world of red tape. What does it mean if a company is systemically important? "You have to be incredibly successful, because you have to be big and interconnected," says Justin Wolfers, a professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan. "It means they’re so big and their financial transactions are so interconnected with other firms, if they went belly-up, it could possibly cause some kind of financial crisis." Looking at the systemic importance of companies is part of the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act -- a response to the financial crash. A federal council was created to watch ...
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