Open enrollment can be a complicated process, especially if decisions surrounding the employee benefits plan selections are delayed. To make matters more interesting, there are legal changes affecting the design and administration of benefits for plan years beginning on or...

Health Insurance Open Enrollment Are you missing out by ignoring your open enrollment period? This isn’t just a time to change your health insurance (but checking into your options for switching policies is always smart). Open enrollment gives you a...

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) expanded health insurance coverage in part by prohibiting discrimination against people with pre-existing conditions and offering subsidies to low-income people purchasing through newly-created exchanges on the individual insurance market. In this analysis, we use publicly-available...

The Google generation is changing industries from retail to call centers — and everything in between. Thanks to the internet, DIY solutions to problems big and small are often just a few clicks away. But when it comes to a...

State officials made a last-minute holiday announcement Thursday when they detailed 200 new jobs that will be coming to Blount County. Gov. Bill Haslam and Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bob Rolfe announced Avant LLC, an online lending...

Solar Energy Will Thrive David Sandalow, the inaugural fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, is a former under secretary of energy and assistant secretary for policy and international affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy. UPDATED MAY 3,...