The Wall Street Journal examines the gap created by some states deciding not to expand their Medicaid programs and what that decision means for hospitals' bottom lines. Also, Republican lawmakers consider "bailouts" for hospitals after they ...
Tags: Coverage Gap, Medicaid Expansion, Obamacare, GOP
Sixteen leading food and beverage companies in the US sold 6.4 trillion fewer calories in the US in 2012 than they did in 2007, according to the findings of a report funded by health organisation the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). ...
China is the top international destination for U.S. soy, importing 849 million bushels of whole U.S. soybeans in the most recent marketing year. It is hard to imagine that number growing, but experts expect U.S. soybean exports to China to ...
Tags: Soybean Exports, Agriculture
Politico reports that while Republican governors in Texas and Louisiana remain firmly in the no camp, others in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Indiana and Oklahoma are giving the program a second look. News outlets also offer updates from ...
Tags: Gop Governors, Medicaid Expansion
I have fond memories of 2010 when our industry catapulted out of the recession. Distribution and component suppliers were in flat-out growth mode as all struggled to deal with rapidly rising demands that rapidly swamped capacity levels that ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
ArcelorMittal was recognized by the US Department of Energy this week for its leadership in the Better Buildings, Better Plants Program, which supports the Obama administration's target to increase energy productivity in the US by 2030. ...
Tags: US, energy, Arcelormittal, energy productivity, energy efficiency
Mobile technology is increasing the complexity, usage and costs of mainframe applications, according to 350 international CIOs. A survey conducted by Compuware research shows that companies are subsequently finding it more difficult to ...
Tags: application, CIO
FinancialForce.com, a company specializing in back office applications, has announced that it has acquired the business and assets of Less Software including the firm's supply chain management (SCM) solutions. The cloud application suite ...
Tags: Software, cloud application
J.E. Fortin celebrated its 90th anniversary with the unveiling of its 426th Truck, a 2013 Freightliner Cascadia equipped with a Detroit DD15 engine. The truck is the 400th truck purchased by Jean-Claude Fortin, and also has the number ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto
J.E. Fortin celebrated its 90th anniversary with the unveiling of its 426th Truck, a 2013 Freightliner Cascadia equipped with a Detroit DD15 engine. The truck is the 400th truck purchased by Jean-Claude Fortin, and also has the number ...
Tags: J.E., Fortin Inc., celebrate, 90th, anniversary
The rest of the consumer product company’s sites in the UK and Ireland are at 94.4% recycling in overall tonnage. The FMCG giant set environmental targets in 2011 to reduce its packaging by 20% (per consumer use) by 2020 compared ...
Tags: P&G, Environmental, Social Responsibility
China said Monday that consumers will need to bear some of the costs of tighter fuel standards, opening the door to higher prices at fuel pumps as the nation balances growing public concern over the environment with worries about inflation. ...
Tags: Fuel Standards, Fuel Pumps
Pressures from increasingly challenging market and economic conditions in China, which are exacerbated by a regulatory environment that continues to be demanding and at times discriminatory, have led to a clear downturn in profitability and ...
The Asian thermal coal market is cautiously awaiting a decision from China, wondering if Beijing is serious about imposing a ban on imports of low calorific value coal, according to a range of market players interviewed by Platts Monday at ...
Tags: Low CV Coal, Import Ban
This week may have seen the network heavyweights of the U.S. celebrate the achievement of inventing Ethernet 40 years ago, but they’re wondering where the next funding is coming from. At the NetEvents conference in San Francisco to ...
Tags: 3Com, Bill English, Bill Spencer, Bob Metcalfe, Bridge Networks, cash, CNME