How does a disability examiner determine what types of other work an applicant is able to perform? By looking at all jobs the applicant has performed in the past 15 years, what social security calls the “relevant period,” to see what ...
With 700000 people released from prison each year, there is a social and economic imperative to create policies that help newly released prisoners transition into their communities and maintain stable employment. ...
"Washington Policy Watch" is not affiliated or connected with "Policy Watch" (produced and distributed by Nancy Amidei at the University of Washington's School of Social Work since 1993), which focuses primarily on social welfare, ...
A key factor in the weakening financial state of Blue Cross in Michigan is that so many people have lost jobs, or work at companies that slashed health care benefits. Those people had to shop for individual coverage with the ...
Even as the holiday shopping season begins in full swing, the same events poisoning the housing market are now at work on commercial properties, and the bad news is trickling in. Malls from Michigan to Georgia are entering foreclosure. ...
"Our success underlines the possibilities of social entrepreneurialism in our country where craft is the second largest source of employment, after agriculture," the company says in its press materials. Maintaining an Interest ...
Pipe Light: Mi Casa’s Interactive Public Art in São Paulo. by Lourenço Bustani (PSFK São Paulo / Mandalah). On the relatively calm United States Street, in a high end neighborhood in São Paulo, one house stands out amidst the myriad of ...
Want to run with the big dogs? If you can write with style, grace, good humor — and outrageous originality — about some aspect of the real estate industry, and if you think your work belongs in BloodhoundBlog, speak up. ...
According to officials from ICE and the Hamlin County Sheriff's office, four of the five workers face criminal identity theft charges for using social security numbers that were not their own to get jobs at the farm. The fifth worker ...
The unions began their television campaign with a commercial telling voters that Measure 64 would (somehow) keep firefighters, nurses and teachers from doing their jobs. I scratched my head the first time I saw that ad, wondering how a ...
