The average monthly Cobra bill for family health coverage has surged to 83% of the average monthly unemployment-insurance check, up from about 61% in 2001, according to Families USA, a nonprofit groupfocusing on health-care issues.
Fifty-four percent of the nation's 18-to-34-year-olds either want to start a business or have already started one, according to a survey by the Young Invincibles, a groupfocusing on young entrepreneurship, that was funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a research group.