Health Care

Health Care

Employer-based health insurance is in decline....

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Restoring Trust in Corporate Governance: Six Essential Tasks for Boards of Directors and Business Leaders

Corporate Governance: Six Essential Tasks for Boar...

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Supreme Court Decision on Citizens United Case is a Major Setback for Campaign Finance Reform

Supreme Court Decision on Citizens United Case is ...

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Early Care and Education

Early Care and Education

All children deserve the opportunity to start scho...

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Obama Needs a Gergen

By CED President Charles Kolb for the Huffington Post

President Obama has a problem in his White House, and it is not Rahm Emanuel.

Washington's current parlor game focuses on how long chief of staff Emanuel will keep his job given Obama's sagging poll numbers. Emanuel is a shrewd politician skilled at winning elections. He has solid White House experience as a Senior Advisor to President Clinton.
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Poll: West Virginia Voters Support Public Financing for Court Elections
CHARLESTON, W.VA., March 8, 2010-West Virginia voters support public financing of elections for state Supreme Court justices, expressing deep concern that campaign funders currently can buy unfair influence in the courtroom.
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NYT Op-Ed: How the G.O.P. Can Fix Health Care
Health care reform should have two critical goals: reducing costs and covering more people. To meet them, Democrats and Republicans must abandon simplistic, ideologically driven proposals that animate each party's base. Liberals cannot insist on Medicare for all, and conservatives cannot insist on markets for all, plus tort reform. Neither approach will work.
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Restoring Trust in Corporate Governance: Six Essential Tasks for Boards of Directors and Business Leaders
CED Statement Aims to Focus Directors and Executives on Governance Essentials in Time of Economic Turmoil and Change

If American business leaders are to restore public confidence in how companies are run, boards of directors must discharge six essential, closely interrelated tasks. That is the message of a new CED policy brief, Restoring Trust in Corporate Governance: The Six Essential Tasks of Boards of Directors and Business Leaders. The brief was written by Ben W. Heineman, Jr., CED Trustee and former Vice President and General Counsel for General Electric Corporation, with the consultation and advice from the CED's Subcommittee on Corporate Governance.

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CED, the Committee for Economic Development is an independent, nonpartisan organization for business and education leaders dedicated to policy research on the major economic and social issues of our time and the implementation of its recommendations by the public and private sectors.