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Coach Tom Thibodeau said Noah still has a little soreness before the Bulls played the Indiana Pacers in a preseason game on Friday night and that the team wants him to be completely healthy before he returns.
Noah was injured early in training camp and missed the Bulls' first three preseason games before playing 19 minutes Wednesday night against the Detroit Pistons. Afterward, he said he felt "great," but the soreness in the groin returned on Thursday.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- 2010 NRF CONFERENCE -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today that MarineMax, (NYSE: HZO), the largest recreational boat retailer in the United States, is using IBM business analytics to streamline operational planning, improve decision-making, and enforce more consistent, collaborative information access across the company. Since implementing the solutions, the retailer has been able to cut inventory costs, improve return on marketing spending, and reduce overall planning cycles from months to just a few weeks, among other benefits.
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Over the past decade, MarineMax has experienced tremendous growth. Today, the company can be found in 55 locations across the United States, with a multi-channel retail model that includes showrooms, catalogs, a call center and a full-service online presence. With this expansion came the need for stronger, more collaborative information management across the enterprise. Previously, critical data was trapped in many disparate spreadsheets and systems, making it very difficult for business leaders and frontline employees to access and share information on sales, costs and inventory.
With IBM business analytics software in place, MarineMax has benefited from significant operational efficiencies across all levels of the company. Store managers now capitalize on self-service reporting and faster access to their store performance, helping them make better decisions about their merchandising and promotions. Finance is able to enforce a more consistent company-wide budgeting process to ensure forecast accuracy, and can focus on long-term planning and strategic performance analysis. Additionally, senior executives gain a holistic, real-time view of historical, current and projected enterprise performance to ensure company objectives are always on target.
A more efficient budgeting, forecasting and analysis process was, in fact, the primary driver for the new IBM system. Prior solutions were unstable and lacked key functionality such as re-forecasting, and "what if" scenario modeling to determine the impact of business decisions. With IBM, operational units across MarineMax can now easily work together from the same numbers to build integrated budgets and plans - a process that today only takes weeks instead of months - and evaluate performance against plans.
These new-found forecasting efficiencies were especially critical in the area of demand planning. Generally, global retailers experience lead times as long as 6 to 10 months, forcing them to make substantial bets on inventory, consumer trends and economic conditions. This challenge is magnified in the world of retail boating, where inaccurate commitment planning of luxury boats can inflate inventory costs. Using IBM business analytics, MarineMax can tap into multiple years of sales history, enabling managers to better understand customer demand trends and more confidently establish future commitments, adjusting forecasts throughout the year based on sales activities.
Similar efficiencies have been experienced in the Marketing department. MarineMax participates in hundreds of key marketing and sales events every year, such as boat shows, which require considerable labor and material resources to run effectively. IBM analytics provides marketing executives stronger visibility into the true cost and return on investment of each event. By easily identifying top and bottom performing events, MarineMax can focus efforts only on those events that drive greater returns, and has reduced their annual marketing costs significantly while still maintaining industry leading market share.
IBM also underpins the company's Management By Objectives (MBO) program for employee performance, which helps employees clearly understand corporate objectives and identify their individual or team responsibilities. Using IBM technology, store managers can establish individual goals, monitor team member performance, take corrective measures when necessary, then roll information up to the store, region and company levels to quickly determine the impact on payroll.
"IBM business analytics and performance management is helping us achieve a smarter and more efficient operational model," said Jeremy Wilson, Vice President of Information Technology at MarineMax. "The company is now better able to strengthen collaboration between finance, human resources, marketing, and store operations, ensuring MarineMax remains agile in responding to market challenges, capitalizing on new opportunities and providing the best shopping experience for our customers."
In the retail world, success is premised on building customer loyalty and trust by getting the right product into the hands of the consumer at the right time. Yet every year, the retail industry loses $93 billion in missed sales due to not having the right products in stock.
"IBM analytics helps chains like Marine Max eliminate inefficiency and align supply with demand, putting them in a stronger position to better serve the new breed of empowered consumer," said Patricia Vekich Waldron, worldwide distribution sector executive at IBM.
This effort with MarineMax reflects IBM's focus on helping retailers use their information as a strategic asset. IBM recently created a new Business Analytics & Optimization services organization, with 4,000 consultants who can help clients get up and running with deep analytics capabilities, and made significant acquisitions in the analytics space such as the recent $1.2 billion acquisition of SPSS and the $4.9 billion purchase of Cognos in 2008.
MarineMax's analytics and performance management system includes IBM Cognos BI and IBM Cognos Planning, IBM Infosphere Master Data Management Server, IBM Websphere Commerce and IBM Websphere DataStage.
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Headquartered in Clearwater, Florida, MarineMax is the nation's largest recreational boat and yacht retailer. Focused on premium brands, MarineMax sells new and used recreational boats and related marine products, and provides yacht brokerage services in 55 retail locations within 18 states across the country. For more information, please visit http://www.marinemax.com
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Mother's education a strong indicator for children's health
In working on my master's thesis, many studies and my own analysis showed that mother's educational attainment is one of the strongest (or the strongest) correlate to children's educational attainment, even controlling for things like race/ethnicity, income level, and family structure.
This morning's article from the Washington Post suggests that the same is true for infant and child health:
It turns out that pencils and books for mothers may be as important as vaccines and drugs for babies in reducing child mortality in the developing world.
That's because a mother's education level has a huge, if indirect, effect on the health of her children. That relationship, observed in many small studies in rich countries, turns out to be true everywhere on the globe, according to a new study.
Half the reduction in child mortality over the past 40 years can be attributed to the better education of women, according to the analysis published in the journal Lancet. For every one-year increase in the average education of reproductive-age women, a country experienced a 9.5 percent decrease in the child deaths.
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Is firing (a lot of) teachers the only way to improve public schools? - By Ray Fisman - Slate Magazine
An interesting article that problematizes the idea of firing teachers as the cornerstone to improving teacher quality:
How many teachers would school reformers have to fire in order to get American schools performing at their best? That's the question researchers Doug Staigerand Jonah Rockoff set out to answer in a study they presented at the Columbia conference.
The researchers went through a simulation exercise, building on prior findings about the impact that great teachers have on their students, the fraction of incoming teachers who turn out to be strong performers in the classroom, and the "signal-to-noise" ratio in a teacher's performance during her first couple of years (i.e., how hard it is to tell whether a teacher is bad or just unlucky).
When they ran the numbers, the answer their computer spat out had them reviewing their work looking for programming errors. The optimal rate of firing produced by the simulation simply seemed too high: Maximizing teacher performance required that 80 percent of new teachers be fired after two years' probation.
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An East Baltimore citizen suggests a freaky explanation for recent violence in the city: "Check the date they cut off free cable, and watch the next day the murder rates go crazy. The moment they stopped it the kids were on the street 3 or 4 a.m. in the morning. No stories, no cartoon network, nothing to do. That's the real problem," says Eric Brockton, the founder of a group called No More Guns.
A typically mind-twisting, yet common-sensical, observation from the folks at Freakonomics.
Source: The New York Times
Study Rethinks Importance of Kindergarten Teachers - NYTimes
This is a fascinating piece from the New York Times, using one of the most extensively researched education policy studies (Tennessee STAR), but using real life outcomes—rather than test scores—to show a lasting impact of great kindergarten teachers.
The policy implications are not necessarily clear-cut, but how this changes researchers' thoughts about the fade-out effect could have major effects on future interventions:
How much do your kindergarten teacher and classmates affect the rest of your life?
Economists have generally thought that the answer was not much. Great teachers and early childhood programs can have a big short-term effect. But the impact tends to fade. By junior high and high school, children who had excellent early schooling do little better on tests than similar children who did not — which raises the demoralizing question of how much of a difference schools and teachers can make.
There has always been one major caveat, however, to the research on the fade-out effect. It was based mainly on test scores, not on a broader set of measures, like a child's health or eventual earnings. As Raj Chetty, a Harvard economist, says: "We don't really care about test scores. We care about adult outcomes."
Early this year, Mr. Chetty and five other researchers set out to fill this void. They examined the life paths of almost 12,000 children who had been part of a well-known education experiment in Tennessee in the 1980s. The children are now about 30, well started on their adult lives. On Tuesday, Mr. Chetty presented the findings — not yet peer-reviewed — at an academic conference in Cambridge, Mass. They're fairly explosive.
Just as in other studies, the Tennessee experiment found that some teachers were able to help students learn vastly more than other teachers. And just as in other studies, the effect largely disappeared by junior high, based on test scores. Yet when Mr. Chetty and his colleagues took another look at the students in adulthood, they discovered that the legacy of kindergarten had re-emerged.
Students who had learned much more in kindergarten were more likely to go to college than students with otherwise similar backgrounds. Students who learned more were also less likely to become single parents. As adults, they were more likely to be saving for retirement. Perhaps most striking, they were earning more.
All else equal, they were making about an extra $100 a year at age 27 for every percentile they had moved up the test-score distribution over the course of kindergarten. A student who went from average to the 60th percentile — a typical jump for a 5-year-old with a good teacher — could expect to make about $1,000 more a year at age 27 than a student who remained at the average. Over time, the effect seems to grow, too.
Source: The New York Times
Books in home as important as parents' education in determining children's education level
Whether rich or poor, residents of the United States or China, illiterate or college graduates, parents who have books in the home increase the level of education their children will attain, according to a 20-year study led by Mariah Evans, University of Nevada, Reno associate professor of sociology and resource economics.
For years, educators have thought the strongest predictor of attaining high levels of education was having parents who were highly educated. But, strikingly, this massive study showed that the difference between being raised in a bookless home compared to being raised in a home with a 500-book library has as great an effect on the level of education a child will attain as having parents who are barely literate (3 years of education) compared to having parents who have a university education (15 or 16 years of education). Both factors, having a 500-book library or having university-educated parents, propel a child 3.2 years further in education, on average. (via azspot)
This finding has actually been promoted in a number of studies of child development and educational attainment in the last decade or so. A major question that is always attached is to what extent the number of books in the home is a proxy for other household characteristics that reflect the amount of time or energy that parents put into helping the child navigate through early development. (Similarly, number of museum visits at a young age is occasionally cited as another input correlated with higher educational attainment).
Some studies that I have read say that the correlation between books-in-home and educational attainment holds even when controlling for other factors—such as parents educational status, and household income levels—which this study does as well. Where this one seems to go beyond is by positing that the effect is actually stronger in lower-income households, which would be a particularly persuasive finding.
It doesn't make sense that something as passive as having books in the house would make such a difference, but the strong effect shown by this study suggests that we should look more closely at what else the number of books represents.
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More thoughts sparked by Charles Murray's NYTimes op-ed on Vouchers and Ed Reform
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Diane Ravitch beat him to the punch. Milwaukee is not the first to show this.
Agreed on Ravitch, and I enjoy reading her Bridging Differences blog at edweek.com, when she's not mercilessly promoting her new book. And while Milwaukee isn't the first study to question the relative advantage provided by voucher programs, it's the largest and longest running study, and one that voucher advocates have been looking to for vindication. Which got me thinking further about yesterday's post.
Voucher advocates who promote vouchers as a solution for education in the U.S. face a huge challenge. In order to be successful, they need to prove two different things, each of which is both difficult and somewhat opposed to the other:
- Advocates must show that private or religious schools offer a better educational option than available public schools for low-income.
- Voucher programs must be run in a way that they don't create a new system of winners and losers, with the lottery losing children having lower outcomes as a result of missing out than they would have had in the absence of such a program.
Each of these is difficult to demonstrate, and most of the ways in which statistics show evidence of one calls into question the other. The Milwaukee study, like that recent early evidence from the DC voucher program, shows some rather compelling evidence for #2 (hold harmless), but in doing so, it largely invalidates the argument for #1 (urgent need answered by vouchers).
In a sense, it is much easier to do what Murray now seeks to do, which is to step away from the 'measurable effectiveness' approach to promoting school choice, and to move forcefully to the political approach of validating the importance of personal or family choice.
That argument is made primarily on the political level, and it focuses on whether the nation and our states and cities should allow public taxpayer funds to support private education. In arguing on these grounds, legitimate differences in philosophy and opinion remain. However, this battleground does not require voucher advocates to address the burden of statistical evidence that vouchers—like so many education reform approaches—have thus far failed to deliver.
Why not instead finally acknowledge that standardized test scores are a terrible way to decide whether one school is better than another? This is true whether the reform in question is vouchers, charter schools, increased school accountability, smaller class sizes, better pay for all teachers, bonuses for good teachers, firing of bad teachers — measured by changes in test scores, each has failed to live up to its hype…
…As an advocate of school choice, all I can say is thank heavens for the Milwaukee results. Here's why: If my fellow supporters of charter schools and vouchers can finally be pushed off their obsession with test scores, maybe we can focus on the real reason that school choice is a good idea. Schools differ in what they teach and how they teach it, and parents care deeply about both, regardless of whether test scores rise.
Charles Murray (yes, the Bell Curve co-author) takes the recent finding that Milwaukee's school choice program didn't return significantly higher test score results for the students who used vouchers to go to private schools, as a reason to get rid of standardized tests as the basis of assessing school effectiveness. (Why Charter Schools Fail the Test - NYTimes.com)
While I appreciate Dr. Murray's conclusion that standardized tests are extremely limited, by design, it is striking for two reasons:
- When the evidence changes, so does the guiding assumption behind why school choice is important. (I realize that Murray made his personal shift a few years ago, but as he admits, this is not the first study to show a lack of big test score changes).
- A man whose career/public persona was catapulted by a book that inflamed the nation on the basis of standardized (IQ) tests, is now saying, at least in terms of schools, that maybe they don't mean so much after all.
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• Elizabeth Warren's Toaster Theory of Credit Cards: "You know there were two ways you could have gone in the toaster market. If you had no safety standards, there would be a way to make profits. Take out the insulation. Because the insulation costs money, right? Use the cheaper wiring. And if one in every five toasters bursts into flames, too bad. Customers can`t tell the difference. You`ll make nice profits. But no, we said we`re going to have some basic safety stuff. And do your competition for toasters, but how do we compete in the toaster market? Boy, we compete on color and design and price, and you know, toasters that also play "Battle Hymn of the Republic" or whatever it is. But it`s a market that works because nobody is competing by tricking people."
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Hillary Clinton's speech on World Water Day
Go to the link for the full transcript from the State Department. Here's an excerpt:
The United States is making major investments to combat preventable diseases and improve child survival through our Global Health Initiative. Increasing access to safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene will help save lives that are now being lost to preventable diseases.
Seventy percent of the world's water use is devoted to agriculture, and the outcome of our work to promote global food security depends in part on having a successful water policy and sound water management. Floods and droughts can wipe out crops, and decimate economies that depend on agriculture.
We are also working to empower women around the world, because depending upon which continent we're talking about, the average is 60 percent of the farmers are women. In addition to that, women who gain access to sanitation, who are freed from the burden of walking for hours each day just to locate and carry water, will find it easier to invest time and energy in their families and communities.
The stability of young governments in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other nations depends in part on their ability to provide their people with access to water and sanitation. A lack of water, sanitation, and irrigation we know leads to economic decline, and even can lead to unrest and instability.
Part of being serious about dealing with and adapting to climate change is about being serious about water. As the earth warms, rainfall patterns can shift, bringing new patterns of drought and flooding. And we need to get out in front of that problem.
Successful engagement on water can also affect how our country is perceived in the world. We spend a lot of time working on issues such as terrorism and arms control and nuclear proliferation. These are obviously important topics that deserve our attention. But the reality is that they are not problems most people deal with on a day-to-day basis. Water is different. When we demonstrate our concern for the issue, it speaks to individuals on a whole different level. Everyone knows sensation of thirst firsthand. We all have daily personal experience that we can think about and relate to, even if the nature and magnitude of that experience varies widely. Our ability to satisfy our need for water depends on our location and our circumstances. But as a matter of biological necessity, access to safe, sustainable supplies of water is a priority for everyone on the planet.
In the United States, water represents one of the great diplomatic and development opportunities of our time. It's not every day you find an issue where effective diplomacy and development will allow you to save millions of lives, feed the hungry, empower women, advance our national security interests, protect the environment, and demonstrate to billions of people that the United States cares, cares about you and your welfare. Water is that issue. )((via caraobrien)
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It's as if a scientist working in his basement found the cure for cancer, but finding it involved eating apple slices four times a week, broccoli every nine minutes, an amazing doctor, and nurses who seem to really care.
Roland Fryer on why it is so hard for researchers to find the "secret" behind the effectiveness of the Harlem Children's Zone. Because HCZ involves so many different interventions, programs, and strategies at both the community and school levels, it is difficult to identify which components—separately or together—are driving the positive effects.
Obama's Education Plan Gets Mixed Reviews (Washington Post)
To the surprise of many educators who campaigned last year for change in the White House, the Obama administration's first recipe for school reform relies heavily on Bush-era ingredients and adds others that make unions gag.
The emerging plan (currently in its most visible form with the proposed rules for "Race to the Top" funding) indicates a few key componenets:
- To create systems to track individual student achievement over time and link growth in scores to individual teachers and principals;
- To use those data in part to evaluate and compensate teachers and principals;
- To lift limits on independently operated but publicly funded charter schools, which usually are not unionized; and
- To shake up perennially struggling schools identified through No Child Left Behind.
I'm not too sure how surprising this is, since Obama talked a lot about charters, merit pay and "data-driven" accountability on the campaign trail. In fact, his emerging program seems to look a lot like what Democrats for Education Reform have been pushing over the last couple of years, making this less surprising:
In a joint statement, the Center for American Progress, Democrats for Education Reform, Education Equality Project and the Education Trust called the proposal "a strong and good-faith effort" to fix education problems.
There is a lot still to be hashed out, but it appears the "ed reform left" is among the early frontrunners in the Obama education policy influence race.
Schools can have high alcohol consumption rates and reputations as "party schools," yet still graduate student's at a decent rate. At least that's what appears to be the case from a comparison of the graduation rates for the Princeton Review's top 10 beer-loving, hard alcohol drinking, and party schools versus their teetotaling peers.
Play Hard and Graduate? - The Quick and the Ed Blog, Ed Sector
While a (overly) simplistic analysis, this quick mashup indicates that university with high student levels of alcohol consumption are not necessarily suffering diminished student success, at least if you define success by graduation rates.
Schools rated as "party schools," however, seem to see a corresponding decline in graduation rates, when compared to "stone cold sober" schools.
Something tells me Henry Wechsler would have some problems with this analysis.
Update: A quick look at the comments thread in the linked post shows that the comparison was done more than a bit tongue-in-cheek, but as I'm sure it intended, it has sparked some interesting discussion on what the numbers may or may not say.


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The Yahoo Search Blog announced that they have released a new version of my favorite search browser plugin named Inquisitor. The upgrade makes the Apple Safari search plugin faster, cleaner, and multi-lingual.
By faster, Yahoo has integrated Inquisitor with BOSS, enabling a faster return on your Yahoo queries. Yahoo has cleaned up both the Inquisitor home page and the client to be simpler and more streamlined. Finally, Yahoo has expanded the language support to Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and German.
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Nebraska Wesleyan University's Symphonic Band took a history lesson like no other they've taken.
"This will undoubtedly be an experience that our students will never forget," said NWU band director Sam Zitek.
On the 68th anniversary of D-Day, the band traveled to Normandy to commemorate the 1944 Allied Invasion and liberation of France.
The band has known for the past couple of years that it would travel internationally this summer, said NWU band director Sam Zitek. They learned last fall that they would provide music for the June 6 D-Day ceremony at American Cemetery.
"Bands typically do their own service when they are there but since we were planning to be there on the actual anniversary, we were asked to be a part of the official ceremony," said Zitek.
The morning ceremony overlooked Omaha Beach and other landing sites. The Symphonic Band performed both the American National Anthem and the French National Anthem; senior Lauren Fletcher played taps while junior Kaitlin Zardetto-Smith laid the wreath. The ceremony concluded with a 30-minute concert of music including "Stars and Stripes Forever," "French Military March," "Amazing Grace," and "Ave Maria." The band even experienced national media attention with CSB Sunday Morning filming the event.
"Normandy will be a tear jerker," said recent NWU graduate and trombonist Matthew Anderson of Clarks, before boarding a plane to Normandy, France.
Anderson — who has had a long-time interest in World War II — said the trip enticed him to research D-Day more thoroughly.
"But this will be the best place to learn," he said of Normandy. "It will be good to see the world from a different perspective. An opportunity to play at this location happens only once."
The Symphonic Band prepared for months, said Zitek. In addition to learning the music, students were asked to dig deep into their family histories and explore possible personal connections to D-Day.
For tuba player Kaitlin Zardetto-Smith, a junior vocal performance and history major from Omaha, the anticipation led to numerous conversations and stories with her family about a grandfather who was a radio operator in the U.S. Air Force and was on the first plane to land on Normandy.
"I have a bundle of his pictures," she said. "This trip has a real personal connection for me."
The Symphonic Band spent 10 days in France. In addition to numerous tourist stops, they performed a concert at La Madeleine and another on Champs Elysees.
"It's a good opportunity to learn outside the classroom," said trumpet player Jameson Bellairs, a junior from Clarinda, Iowa. "It's going to bring forth lots of emotion and give us all a good reminder as to why we should care about history."


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The 20-Minute Mind/Body Workout
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- Workout 1
- Push-Up
- Standing Row
- Overhead Press with Dumbbells
- Pull-Over with Dumbbells
- Workout 2: Forward Lunge
- Dumbbell Squat
- Diagonal Lunge with Dumbbells
- Deadlift
- Workout 3: Crab Walk
- Prone Plank
- Cobra
- Opposite Arm/Leg Raise
- Workout 4: Option 1: Speed
- Option 2: Resistance Pyramid
- Workout 5: Relaxation
Option 2: Resistance PyramidWorkout 4: Cardio Option 2: Resistance Pyramid
This workout is best done on a cardio machine like an elliptical trainer, treadmill, stairclimber, or stationary bike. Each minute builds in intensity until you reach a peak about halfway through.
- Start off fairly easily for 2 minutes, then increase the resistance (incline on a treadmill, or resistance on a bike or elliptical) by 1 level each minute, until you get to 12 minutes or until you are unable to keep up the effort.
- Lower the resistance or incline by 1 level each minute until you get to 20 minutes.
Next: Workout 5: Relaxation
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The PTA, teachers and principal all work together as a cohesive team to help provide the best environment for the students. The education is sound, and there are wonderful art, music and PE programs.
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An excellent school with exceptional parental involvment in the PTA. We now have new computers with excellent reading programs in all classrooms and will soon have a fully computerized library to help the children transition into middle school. The music program is excellent with an advanced orchestra program for those who excel. I have had 3 children go through this school and they are currently in the gifted and talented programs at the high school and middle school level and I attribute their success to the teachers and staff at this school who really put children first.
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Target Corp. stops health coverage to part-time workers
Minneapolis, MN, United States (4E) – Target Corp. said it will halt offering health insurance for part-time employees, becoming the latest major retailer to have scaled back benefits as a result of changes from Obamacare.
Beginning April 1, Target will no longer cover part-time employees, according to a company's blog post citing human resources chief Jodee Kozlak. Less than 10 percent of the retailer's 360,000 workforce are enrolled in the plan that is being discontinued. Those employees will be provided $500 for the termination of their coverage.
The U.S. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, does not require most businesses to offer health plans to part-time workers, and covering them may disqualify those people from subsidies in new government-backed health-insurance marketplaces.
Target said the exchanges could provide options its part-time workers may choose from.
According to the company's website, many of Target's part-time workers may prefer coverage from the insurance exchanges, and that by offering them coverage, the company actually make many of them ineligible for subsidies.
For Target employees who work fewer than 30 hours a week, coverage will end April 1, and open enrollment for 2014 under the health law closes a day earlier.
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