How Health-Care Reform Can Help Small Businesses
During World War II, the U.S. government put wage controls on businesses so workers on the home front wouldn’t earn more than their military counterparts on tightly controlled salaries. But with so much of the workforce overseas, the competition for talent became fierce. So companies beefed up their compensation packages with benefits like health insurance, which weren’t subject to wage controls. And the rest, as they say, is history.
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