Sunday, September 6th, 2026
A survey of more than 1,800 employers puts the 2027 increase in health benefit costs at 8.2 percent, the steepest since 2003. That figure is what remains after the changes employers plan to make, and the largest of those changes is asking employees to pay more.
A Colorado county is closing $12.5m. An Arizona district is cutting five assistant superintendents against a shortfall of nine to eighteen million. A Washington district is down $14m over two years after voters declined a levy. The word covers a transfer that expired, a decline that is permanent and a vote that was lost, and only one of those is fixed by cutting.
