Over the past decade, states have slashed workers' compensation benefits, denying injured workers help when they need it most and shifting the costs of workplace accidents to taxpayers.
Lawrence Williamson moved three years ago from Macon, Georgia, to Detroit and paid $17,000 for a 4,500- square-foot historic-district limestone house at a tax sale. Then he suffered sticker shock when his car insurance premium tripled.
Over the past several years, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have imposed stricter Medicare Set-Aside guidelines as part of its ongoing effort to preserve the Medicare trust fund.