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ALBANY—More lower income families would be eligible for the Family Health Plus program by removing depreciation of business assets from income eligibility calculations under legislation passed by the state Senate and sent to the Assembly.
“Programs like Family Health Plus and Child Health Plus have kept hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers healthy by making insurance [...]

When Boston humorist and author Steve Almond unplugged his Baby Daddy blog last month, he posted a goodbye note saying he and his wife had never planned to post beyond their daughter Josie’s diaper years. But he also cited a few ethical concerns with writing the blog, which ran on the hip parenting site Babble.com.
For [...]

Michelle and David Huck know well the promise and peril of adopting from Africa.The Calgary couple’s first attempt began smoothly: A Canadian adoption agency newly licensed to work in Sierra Leone matched them with orphaned siblings - Amie, 3, and her one-year-old brother, Sorie. For a year, the Hucks filled out paperwork, prepared a bedroom [...]

By Jennifer Coogan
NEW YORK (Reuters) - As the earnings-reporting season for the first quarter kicks off next week, stock investors will be keenly assessing to what extent the slowing economy is taking a toll on Corporate America
First-quarter U.S. earnings estimates have fallen sharply since the period began as expectations for a [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Jerry Yang, whose company helped identify a Chinese dissident who was later jailed, said on Thursday that legal “gray areas” overseas made doing business internationally difficult.
Yang, whose family emigrated from Taiwan when he was ten, called himself “a big believer in American values” but [...]

By Jennifer Coogan
NEW YORK (Reuters) - As the earnings reporting season for the first quarter kicks off this week, stock investors will be keenly assessing to what extent the slowing economy is taking a toll on Corporate America
First-quarter U.S. earnings estimates have fallen sharply since the period began as expectations for [...]

(Repeating item that initially moved on Friday)
By Jennifer Coogan
NEW YORK, April 6 (Reuters) - As the earnings reporting
season for the first quarter kicks off this week, stock
investors will be keenly assessing to what extent the slowing
economy is taking a toll on Corporate America
First-quarter U.S. earnings estimates have [...]

By Tim Castle
LONDON (Reuters) - A new pay contract for family doctors in England cost 1.76 billion pounds more than budgeted and has failed to deliver expected improvements in patient care, the government’s accounting watchdog said on Thursday.
The salaries of partners in GP surgeries have soared 58 percent since the contract [...]

The bittersweet cycle of life never ends in thoroughbred racing, a sport sustained by bloodlines and family. The equine lines are meticulously tweaked in the never-ending quest for that mix of nature and nurture and God’s will that might produce the next champion. But the blood runs deep in racing’s human lineages, too, in the [...]

By Jennifer Coogan
NEW YORK, April 4 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures were
slightly higher on Friday before a key employment indicator
that may shed light on the extent of the economic slowdown.
In corporate news, shares of Mosaic Co (MOS.N: Quote, Profile, Research) jumped 6.7
percent to $111.50 after the crop [...]