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NEWS ABOUT: incentives

incentives stories: 9 news summaries

 Renters Feel the Landlord Love 

In soft market, tenants offered flat-screen TVs, cash, reduced rent

Nov 2, 09 6:19 AM CST
(Newser) - Time was, the landlord's knock could inspire dread and bogus excuses. But as apartment vacancies soar, these days he's more likely to drop by to offer you a flat-screen TV, cash, or reduced rent if you re-up your lease. "Many companies are doing whatever they can to keep units... More »

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real estate • housing market • incentives • apartment • renters

 I'd Vote for Health Bill: Frist 

Obama's reforms are a step in the right direction, former Senate majority leader says

Oct 2, 09 6:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - Health care reform legislation has the unexpected support of a prominent physician: former Senate Republican leader Bill Frist. If he were still in politics, “I would end up voting for it," Frist said. The surgeon also blamed some Republicans for not engaging seriously in the health care debate:... More »

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health care • Republican • Senate • Bill Frist • physician • doctor • health care reform • incentives • Obama administration

Health Bill Has
a Big Carrot for the Healthy

Senate measure would let employers cut premiums up to 50%

Jul 15, 09 12:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - A measure slipped into the Senate’s health care reform bill could cut workers’ insurance costs by up to half if they eat well, lose weight, and quit smoking, the Boston Globe reports. The measure may be key to encouraging Americans to stay healthy without too much government imposition, a... More »

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health care • health care costs • health insurance • Senate • smoking • weight loss • diet • Chris Dodd • healthy habits • discounts • incentives • Obama administration • Judd Gregg

analysis

 Health Care Reform: 
 What We Can Agree On 

High costs hurt all of us—here's how we can cut them

May 13, 09 1:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - The issue of health care reform crops up regularly, then disappears—but now it may have a foothold, writes Karen Tumulty in Time. That’s because the focus of the issue is on the current system’s huge cost to everyone. Much of the spending may be unnecessary, and a... More »

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health care costs • health care industry • health care reform • incentives • Obama administration • President Obama • Peter Orszag • Jay-ZTV

OPINION

 Spend, Baby, Spend 
 —or We're Sunk 


Mar 15, 09 6:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Our massive economy will remain stuck until hoarders open their wallets and "roll the dice" once again, Daniel Gross writes in Newsweek. Investors and consumers alike must regain their "penchant for gain and risk... some of the essence of what makes us American." Until that caffeinated, delirious... More »

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recession • investment • savings • incentives • economy • American • Rockefeller family • risk-taking • thrift

States Get Creative as
Jobs Disappear

Even as tax revenues shrink, states pay to entice employers

Feb 2, 09 8:47 AM CST
(Newser) - State governments, reeling from diminished tax revenues that have forced cuts in services and, in some cases, jobs, increasingly are offering tax breaks and incentives to employers in an effort to stimulate the job market, reports the Wall Street Journal. “Now is not the time to back off the... More »

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Jon Corzine • unemployment • incentives • corporate America • job creation • financial crisis • economic development • Jay Nixon • John Pommer

Gates Urges Companies to Get Creative to Improve Lives


He ruminates on how to tweak market forces to help more people

Jul 31, 08 6:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bill Gates tweaks his corporate colleagues with an essay in Time urging businesses to look harder for ways to extend the benefits of capitalism to a greater portion of the global population. As a philanthropist, he says, he recognizes the need for nonprofit work, but as a businessman, he knows... More »

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philanthropy • Bill Gates • malaria • humanitarian • capitalism • poverty • incentives

Buy Our Minivan, Give Your College Fund a Boost: VW

$1,500 incentive offered with purchase of Routan model

May 8, 08 7:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Volkswagen is offering an innovative incentive to parents to buy their Chrysler-built Routan minivan: $1,500 in a college savings plan, Left Lane News reports. The partnership with Upromise might pale to those with more pressing concerns (or who hate planning ahead), though: Chrysler itself is offering a credit card... More »

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Chrysler • Volkswagen • auto industry • college tuition • savings • incentives • minivan

Senate Pitches
Rival Stimulus Package

Larger rebates, more benefits still to come

Jan 29, 08 8:30 AM CST
(Newser) - The Senate has unveiled its own economic stimulus package, challenging the plan agreed to between House leaders and the White House. The Senate plan would give $500 to almost all Americans, rich and poor, and would extend unemployment benefits to the jobless, reports the Washington Post. Senators are also likely... More »

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US economy • Senate Finance Committee • Max Baucus • tax breaks • economic stimulus package • incentives • tax rebate • George W. Bush

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