Comment on: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Affordable Care Act)

[Excerpt] These comments on the proposed regulations on the health insurance premium tax credit are submitted on behalf of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations ( AFL-CIO ) and its 57 affiliated unions. The AFL-CIO, together with its community affiliate Working America, represents more than 12.2 million workers across the country. Our affiliated unions negotiate health care benefits for almost 40 million workers, retirees, and their family members while unions not affiliated with the AFL-CIO negotiate coverage for an additional 10 million. These benefits are provided through single employer and multiemployer plans, both insured and self-funded

Comment on: Medicaid changes under the Affordable Care Act

[Excerpt] These comments on the proposed regulations on the eligibility changes to Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act are submitted on behalf of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations ( AFL-CIO ) and its 57 affiliated unions. The AFL-CIO, together with its community affiliate Working America, represents more than 12.2 million workers across the country. Our affiliated unions negotiate health care benefits for almost 40 million workers, retirees, and their family members while unions that are not affiliated with the AFL-CIO negotiate coverage for an additional 10 million. These benefits are provided through single employer and multiemployer plans, both insured and self-funded

Purposes, Uses, and Practices of Leadership Assessment in Education

Explores recent research literature dealing with personnel evaluations, professional learning, accountability, and the relation of leadership to learning, in order to clarify how leadership assessment practices impact student achievement

Monotone Volume Formulas for Geometric Flows

We consider a closed manifold M with a Riemannian metric g(t) evolving in direction -2S(t) where S(t) is a symmetric two-tensor on (M,g(t)). We prove that if S satisfies a certain tensor inequality, then one can construct a forwards and a backwards reduced volume quantity, the former being non-increasing, the latter being non-decreasing along the flow. In the case where S=Ric is the Ricci curvature of M, the result corresponds to Perelman's well-known reduced volume monotonicity for the Ricci flow. Some other examples are given in the second section of this article, the main examples and motivation for this work being List's extended Ricci flow system, the Ricci flow coupled with harmonic map heat flow and the mean curvature flow in Lorentzian manifolds with nonnegative sectional curvatures. With our approach, we find new monotonicity formulas for these flows.Comment: v2: final version (as published