A new law is now in place after Rhode Island Governor Donald L. Carcieri signed the bill that assists laid off workers from small businesses. This bill gives the COBRA subsidy to these workers laid off from small businesses.

Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, everyone else in the country has access to the 65 percent COBRA subsidy only if they worked for a company with more than 20 employees. This Act was included as part of the economic stimulus package.

Rhode Island workers from all companies who’ve been laid off now are eligible for COBRA as this new state law outlines. But, workers laid off after Sept. 1. 2008 must hurry and sign up by May 1, 2009 to take advantage of the eligibility.

Quickly after the Rhode Island lawmakers were made aware that laid off small business workers wouldn’t be covered by the COBRA subsidy, a procedural change was proposed, it was passed and signed. There was a April 17 federal deadline for changes, which is part of why the government moved so fast, reported by the Providence Journal.

Hundreds of Rhode Islanders will now be able to sign up for this program and it will be more affordable for everyone because of the federal subsidy. At the end of the day, this is just about giving more Rhode Islanders that are hurting right now ” who are out of work and struggling for health insurance ” the help they need to get the benefit and reduce expenses, said Governor Carcieri.

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The world is dominated by life-long learners: the people who take the time to learn everything they can about their chosen field and everything they can about corresponding subjects. The 400 most successful businesspeople “the Forbes 400″ attribute most of their success to reading at least one non-fiction book a month. But when you have a family and work wants to dominate your time, carving out the time to read all those books can be difficult. New books on every subject are being published every day. How is one supposed to keep up at work or school, spend time with family and find time to read ten to fifteen extra books a year?

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Promotional mugs have become more popular lately. Mugs have an outward appeal and are useful in nature. They vary in shapes, sizes, and materials, making it the most well rounded tool in marketing. Designs can range from exotic to conservative, appealing to all companies needs and budgets.

Earthenware, the most commonly used ceramic material, is used extensively in the production of these promotional mugs. After giving them a desired shape with hand or a tool, the ceramic based object is baked in a kiln. This is followed by the application of a layer of glaze to cover its pores and hence making it suitable to hold liquids. The glaze comprises of different chemicals depending on the desired colour and property. The most commonly added chemical is cobalt oxide for a blue touch. The beauty of a ceramic ware lies in its finished appearance which gives a shimmering effect due to the protective glaze.

The quality and the fact that it can be moulded into any desired shape easily adds to the long list of features that an earthenware promotional mug enjoys. The most traditional artisans used their hands to bring the perfect turns to such mugs before baking them. Though a lot of tools and techniques have come up for their shaping, new age technology has still not been able to beat the perfection of the handmade products.

While the most preferred method of decorating these baked basic mugs is printing, which is very common, hand painting still attracts more people as it gives a more natural feel to it. Almost all major printing methods like screen-printing, transfer printing and dye sublimation are applicable to the ceramic mugs. To add a little classy effect to it, you may get them embossed or get some laser etching done on them. The frosted effect is also gaining a lot of popularity these days.

With all these special effects and the metallic coatings, the promotional mugs are sure to raise your profit margins.

A mortgage overpayment calculator lets you know how much you can save by paying a bit extra each month. If you can afford it.

The general theme is to pay extra on your monthly mortgage payments. Pay 600 instead of 500 if you can.

The savings made at the end may stagger you. We’re talking thousands saved and years knocked off.

As every mortgage deal is slightly different it’s hard to give examples for your figures. You should put your figures into an overpayment calculator and see your own results.

As a general example though if you had a hundred thousand mortgage and had a 5% interest rate, you’d be paying about 580 a month.

Instead of 580, pay 680 a month and the example mortgage is shortened by 6.3 years and saves about 20k in interest.

Add into that you don’t have to pay anything for the last 6 years of an original 25 year deal.

I think that you should most certainly make overpayments if you can. The interest saved snowballs into huge savings later on.

If we were to pay 200 extra per month instead of 100 as another example. Difficult to do but well worth it if you could.

You could save nearly 10 years off the length and save somewhere near thirty two thousand by paying this 200 a month. They are great savings, both in time and money.

Another benefit to paying extra and getting the mortgage over with early is the fact you aren’t paying anything for the years you save. And that can add up to a lot of money saved.

If you were paying 580 a month and you could knock 6 years off, you wouldn’t have to shell out another 40 grand!

All these savings are going in your pocket and that’s got to be appealing.

Over the years we’ve been manipulated into thinking we have to be stuck with 25 year mortgages, but this is just lies and rumour put out by the lenders.

If you won the lottery you wouldn’t keep the mortgage on just ’cause you’d signed up for 25 years. So the same goes for the overpayments, you can reduce the length.

Mind you, your lender won’t want you to know all this!