The Public Cost of Low Wages in New York

This report outlines the public cost of New York's Minimum wage. Over the next several years New York State will raise the minimum wage for fast-food workers to $15 per hour; Gov. Andrew Cuomo is now pushing for legislation to extend this to New York workers in all industries. The governor also recently committed to pay all state government workers$15 an hour.The Labor Center's report on the public cost of jobs paying less than $15 per hour in New York echoes the findings of earlier Labor Center research examining the fiscal impacts of low-wage work in the fast-food and retail sectors, including bank tellers and Wal-Mart employees, and in individual states. Report highlights for the study include:Of all New York workers paid less than$15 an hour, 52 percent received public assistance or had a family member enrolled in a safety net program.Of all New York workers, 32 percent earned less than $15 an hour.Eighteen percent of workers in New York earned less than$15 an hour and had at least one family member, including themselves, receiving public assistance such as food stamps, the Earned Income Tax Credit, Medicaid, or cash assistance programs.Approximately 26 percent of state and local assistance funds in New York went to help low-wage workers

The Promise of the Affordable Care Act, the Practical Realities of Implementation: Maintaining Health Coverage During Life Transitions

Recommends policy options for outreach, education, and automatic application to ensure that all Americans can maintain coverage in the event of unemployment, divorce, early retirement, or other life transitions through health insurance exchanges

Medi-Cal Expansion under the Affordable Care Act: Significant Increase in Coverage with Minimal Cost to the State

Since 2011, California has been taking steps towards expanding Medicaid under the Afordable Care Act (ACA) by implementing Low Income Health Programs (LIHPs) in most California counties. Under the "Bridge to Reform" Medicaid §1115 waiver, just over 500,000 California adults are currently enrolled in coverage in advance of ACA implementation using federal and county funds. he vast majority of these LIHP enrollees can become eligible for Medi-Cal coverage under the ACA beginning January 1, 2014, and the remainder will be eligible for subsidies through Covered California (the California Health Benefit Exchange).In early 2013, California legislators will consider bills to implement a key provision of the ACA that would expand Medi-Cal to low-income adults under age 65, including those without children living at home. Lawfully-present childless adults with income up to 138 percent of the Federal Poverty Level and parents with income between 106 percent and 138 percent of the Federal Poverty Level will be newly eligible. Some unenrolled children and parents who are already income-eligible for the program under existing eligibility rules could also enroll due to the minimum coverage requirement to obtain insurance created by the ACA, improved eligibility, enrollment and redetermination processes, and enhanced awareness of coverage options.In this report, we estimate the growth in Medi-Cal enrollment among both the newly and already eligible using the UC Berkeley-UCLA California Simulation of Insurance Markets (CalSIM) model. We discuss the broader impact of the Medi-Cal Expansion in terms of health outcomes, providers and the economy. We estimate the federal and state spending on increased Medi-Cal enrollment, along with the state tax revenues generated by new federal Medi-Cal spending and potential savings in other areas of the budget

Proposed Regulations Could Limit Access to Affordable Health Coverage for Workers' Children and Family Members

Outlines implications of how the health reform law's premium subsidies apply if employer-sponsored self-only coverage is affordable but family coverage is not. Suggests basing family members' eligibility and affordability on additional cost to employee

The Impact of Oakland's Proposed City Minimum Wage Law: A Prospective Study

The Lift Up Oakland Coalition, an alliance of community, labor, small business, and faith organizations, has placed an initiative on the Oakland November 2014 ballot that would establish a minimum wage of $12.25 for businesses in the city starting March 1, 2015. This study examines the effects of a$12.25 minimum wage on Oakland workers and businesses. Drawing on a variety of government data sources, we estimate that more than a quarter of the Oakland workforce would benefit from the proposed policy, with the average worker earning an additional $2,700 a year. Our analysis of the existing economic research literature suggests that businesses will adjust to modest increases in operating costs through reduced employee turnover costs, improved work performance, and a small, one-time increase in restaurant prices

Health Coverage Expansion in California: What Can Consumers Afford to Spend?

Analyzes Californians' current spending on insurance premiums and out-of-pocket expenditures to assess whether proposals to make obtaining health insurance mandatory include sufficient measures to make it affordable for low- and middle-income families

The State of Health Insurance in California: Findings From the 2009 California Health Interview Survey

Analyzes sources of coverage and uninsurance rates by county, effects of declines in income and employer-sponsored insurance, disparities, access to and affordability of care, role of public insurance, and projected impact of federal healthcare reform

Uma Breve História do Eternalismo

Minha esposa Flo e eu então começamos a esfregar perspectivas próximas junto com um sistema de dupla projeção que chamei de O Sistema Nervoso, que produzia loucas visões, oscilando entre o reconhecível e o inimaginável. E foi aqui que surgiu o Eternalismo. (...) Uma alternância constante e a repetição de fotogramas próximos em sequência, mais um intervalo de preto entre as repetições, não apenas faz a profundidade aparecer como também cria movimento, um movimento 3D que permanece unidirecional, não retornando e então seguindo mais uma vez; um movimento capturado, indo para lugar nenhum, o Eternalismo

Newly Insured Californians Would Fall by More than 1 Million Under the Affordable Care Act Without the Requirement to Purchase Insurance

Compares the estimated number and percentage of currently uninsured Californians who will be insured by 2019 under the Affordable Care Act with the individual mandate and without. Highlights the need for the mandate to ensure affordable coverage