Employers Increasingly Trimming or Cutting Disability Benefits

Disability insurance is one of those under-the-radar benefits you may take for granted, especially if your employer picks up the tab for the coverage, as many firms do. Because of that, as annual benefit enrollment time approaches you probably aren't worried about examining your disability coverage details and costs the way you will your health insurance plan options. But you should.

In This Issue

This week we begin the first of a two-part series examining the high new-infection rate among Black gay and bisexual men by looking at the new social-marketing campaign being introduced by the CDC.

Greater Than AIDS Tours Arkansas

The Black AIDS Institute, in collaboration with the Arkansas Department of Health, will present the second annual Greater Than AIDS tour this week. The tour will be making three stops.

Reversing the Alarming HIV Increase Among Black Gay Men, Part 1

The first of a two-part series examining what can be done to reverse the high rates of new HIV infection among Black gay and bisexual men.

The number of new HIV cases in the United States has remained fairly stable at about 50,000 per year between 2006 and 2009, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that was published in early August in the online scientific journal PLoS ONE.

AP: Working-Age People Losing ground on Health Coverage, According to Census Data

The Associated Press/Washington Post: Census Data Expected To Show Working-Age People Losing Ground In Terms Of Poverty, Insurance
Hurt by high unemployment, working-age Americans are expected to lose ground when new census figures on poverty and the uninsured are released.