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Retirees face the risk of outliving their money
Until recently, retirement planning focused mostly on helping workers accumulate savings. Now, the Treasury Department is tackling another aspect: making sure retirees don't run out of money. The department last week proposed two regulations to make...Tags: Employment Opportunities, Retirement, Employment, MetLife Incorporated, Employment
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Moves to lower your tax bill
Death and taxes might be certain, but the latter changes each year. Even without major tax legislation — thanks, political gridlock — taxpayers need to be aware of even slight adjustments that could benefit them as they prepare their returns....Tags: Retirement, Colleges and Universities, Personal Finance, Colleges and Universities, Tuition Planning Services
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Retirement saving more needed than ever with federal programs cuts
Sun SentinelPeople need to save for retirement as the federal government is already cutting some social programs for the elderly. In the years ahead there will likely be more retirees applying for fewer benefits and services. Facing huge deficits, Uncle Sam has...Tags: Pembroke Pines, Plantation, 401K, Retirement, Personal Finance
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Men rule -- when it comes to saving for retirement
South Florida Sun SentinelAttention, Ladies: You need to catch up with the guys. They’re planning and saving more for retirement than you are. A new survey from Ameriprise Financial finds that 54 percent of men are salting away money for retirement while only 46 percent...Tags: Ameriprise Financial Incorporated, Retirement
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Small investors still counting on stocks for retirement
Money & CompanyAmericans 60 and older may be retreating from the stock market, but more twentysomethings are putting 401(k) money into stocks, a study shows. That's due in part to the popularity of so-called target-date funds.... -
Presidential campaign needs to get real on salvaging middle class
Occupy Wall Street and its coast-to-coast spinoffs captured the headlines in 2011, but the economic debate it helped trigger should reverberate deep into 2012.
That's the debate over the future of the American middle class. Rarely has its economic plight...Tags: Consumer Confidence, Republican Party, Economic Indicator, Bertolt Brecht, U.S. Elections
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Attacks on Social Security, Medicare borrow a strategy from Lenin
About the last thing you'd ever expect is for conservatives to draw procedural lessons from the founder of the Soviet state. So it's fascinating to ponder the persistence of an attack on Social Security that was explicitly billed as a "Leninist"...Tags: Labor Legislation, Social Sciences, Health Care Reform (2009), Ronald Reagan, History (tv network)
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Over 200 state laws to take effect Jan. 1
On January 1, 2012, more than 200 new laws, covering everything from local library boards to murder, will go into effect.
Chicago Tribune political reporter Rick Pearson says some that might impact you the most include:
- Toll hike
- Electronics...Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Medicaid, Synthetic Marijuana, Chicago, Corporate Crime
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Seven Year-End Tips to Reduce 2011 Taxes
BIRMINGHAM - The Internal Revenue Service today reminded Alabamians that there is still a little time to take action to lower their 2011 federal taxes. "In order to claim certain benefits on your 2011 taxes, you need to take action no later than Dec. 31,"...Tags: Energy Saving, Employment Opportunities, Home Improvement, Retirement, Personal Finance
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Incentives can boost bottom line, curb turnover
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — At NCM Associates in Overland Park, Kan., employees are getting a gift that will keep on giving: an infusion into their nest eggs. More than half of the professional services company's 92 employees have been on the job long...
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Saving, cutting debt are main goals for 2012
South Florida Sun SentinelMost Floridians are like those polled in a new survey: They want to cut their debt this year, according to Greg Jensen, a Sunrise-based managing partner of New York Life Insurance CO. that commissioned the poll. The New York Life Kitchen Table Pulse...Tags: Finance, Retirement Planning Services, Finance
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East Haven Mayor Wants Disability Pension
The Hartford CourantThe state is reviewing East Haven Mayor Joseph Maturo's request for reinstatement of his approximately $40,000-a-year firefighter's disability pension, which was rescinded after Maturo was elected to the mayor's post. Maturo, who makes $75,000 a year...Tags: Spinal Disc Herniation, Employment Opportunities, Local Elections, Retirement, Employment
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