By Paul Snyder [email protected] Wisconsin’s unemployment insurance budget has slipped into the red and is projected to be more than $2 billion in debt in each of the next four years. To avoid that crisis, state lawmakers are working on ...

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Matt Pommer Health care premiums in 2010 for the state’s largest insurance program will increase an average 9 percent. The program covers some 155,000 people, including state workers, retirees and their families, according to state officials. The state Group Insurance ...

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Matt Pommer Health care premiums in 2010 for the state’s largest insurance program will increase an average 9 percent. The program covers some 155,000 people, including state workers, retirees and their families, according to state officials. The state Group Insurance ...

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Sean Ryan [email protected] Sun Prairie eluded jacked-up interest payments when it borrowed $8.7 million last month to reconstruct Main Street. Other cities and villages might not be so fortunate if the skittishness afflicting the national municipal bond market catches on ...

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Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar AP Writer Washington — Praising and prodding Congress at once, President Barack Obama on Wednesday said a vast reform of the nation’s health insurance system is required to head off instability to families, industry and the government itself. ...

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Christopher S. Rugaber AP Economics Writer Washington (AP) — The number of newly laid-off workers filing initial claims for jobless benefits last week fell to the lowest level since early January, largely due to changes in the timing of auto ...

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Erica Werner AP Writer washington — House Democrats are looking at big health care changes, including federal aid to help families earning up to $88,000 pay for insurance and a requirement that all must carry coverage. A document obtained by ...

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