The October 30 roundtable held by the minority (Republican) staff of the Senate Finance Committee (SFC) on nonprofit hospitals sparked some troubling memories.

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Amid the national indicators of economic growth are all too-often reports of populations left by the wayside. The annual labor market reports produced by the Community Service Society of New York outline employment issues that ought to galvanize the attention of public- and private-sector leaders.

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Trivia question: Who did Barack Obama beat in his 2004 campaign for the U.S. Senate seat from Illinois?

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It’s nice to see that Maurice “Hank” Greenberg hasn’t overlooked the latent powers of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulations. It was an SEC investigation, plus a look-see by then– New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, that prompted American International Group (AIG) to ease Greenberg out of the firm’s top slot.

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