July 2006 - Posts
The New York Times, July 30th, 2006
Valentin Keller enlisted in an all-German unit of the Union Army in Hamilton,
Ohio, in 1862. He was 26, a small, slender man, 5 feet 4 inches tall, who had
just become a naturalized citizen. He listed his occupation
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The New York Times, July 30th, 2006
Tens of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries who signed up for prescription drug
coverage are paying monthly premiums, but Medicare is not paying any of their
drug costs because they have reached a gap in their
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Forbes.com, July 27th, 2006
With one eye on the clock, congressional
negotiators labored Thursday to settle disputes standing in the way of
agreement on the most sweeping changes to the pension system in years.
House Majority Leader John
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Hawaii Reporter, July 27th, 2006
The U.S.
House today passed a bill that I co-sponsored to enable more senior
citizens to utilize their home equity toward health and other expenses
common to seniors.
Among other provisions, H.R. 5121, the Expanding
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Yahoo Finance, July 27th, 2006
"Keep planting trees," says Tom Pontac, 70, a Californian who has run over 150
marathons since turning 40, and just a few years ago completed his degree at
California State University at Long Beach. His point? You're
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Spas, fitness rooms, formal dining halls, and hefty entrance fees
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 24th, 2006
The colorful, fold-out marketing brochure for Providence Point touts just about any amenity a former South Hills doctor, lawyer or business
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Delaware Online, July 17th, 2006
If you retire at 65, there's a chance your retirement will last more than 30
years. And that raises a lot of questions: What will you do with your time? Will
you stay in the same house? Will you become a Wal-Mart
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MySA.com, July 23rd, 2006
A brain tumor nearly derailed Ana Morlett's retirement plans.
Talking and standing became so difficult for the language teacher that she
had to retire early two years ago, leaving her with just $1,400 a month in
income
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USA Today, June 6th, 2006
A new retirement study provides further evidence that a
growing number of Americans are at risk of a diminished standard of living once
they stop working.
The Center for Retirement Research's new retirement-risk
index,
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The New York Times, July 20th, 2006
ROBERT TISCH, who ran the Loews Corporation, had a marching band at his
memorial service and a packed house at Avery Fisher Hall, all orchestrated by
one of New York’s most prominent party planners. Estée Lauder’s
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By Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.)
The Hill, July 19th, 2006
In the fall of 2004 — nearly two years ago — the
House Education and the Workforce Committee unveiled six principles to
fix our nation’s outdated pension laws.
These pillars represented the
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The New York Times, July 18th, 2006
The pharmaceutical industry is beginning to reap a windfall from a
surprisingly lucrative niche market: drugs for poor people.
And analysts expect the benefits to show up in many of the quarterly
financial results
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Washington Post, July 17th, 2006
If you hate making retirement
investing decisions, you might love the latest mutual fund
trend: Target-date retirement funds that require you to choose
a fund once and then forget it for decades.
These one-decision
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The Arizona Republic, July 17th, 2006
Worried about the rise of do-it-yourself retirement? Sit back and
relax. At least, that's what the big financial services firms, and more
and more employers, want you to think you can do.
As 401(k)s,
employee
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PSAs, booklet educate
seniors on preventing
telemarketing fraud
SeniorJournal.com, July 12th, 2006
The majority of fraudulent
telemarketing calls, 56 to 80 percent, are directed at senior
citizens. This problem is becoming worse
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Reuters, July 12th, 2006
If you hate making
retirement investing decisions, you might love the latest
mutual fund trend: Target-date retirement funds that require
you to choose a fund once and then forget it for decades.
These one-decision funds
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CNN Money, July 12th, 2006
I recently saw an article about the cost of maintaining an affluent lifestyle in
retirement in different regions of the country. I can't identify with such high
living, however. So can you tell me how much I have to save
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The Seattle Times, July 10th, 2006
As I said last week, it's easy
to age successfully when you're healthy. Similarly, care providers have
the easiest time pleasing clients who have few needs. Where the pedal
hits the metal in all eldercare — whether
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Reuters, July 10th, 2006
Retirees who do volunteer work in schools may help not only children but their own health as well, a study suggests.
Researchers
at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore found that older adults who
served as mentors and
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Contra Costa Times, July 10th, 2006
The federal
government, in its wisdom, doesn't want us to spend all our retirement
money too quickly. So the tax man charges a 10 percent penalty to
discourage anyone from tapping into their Individual Retirement
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CNN Money, July 5th, 2006
QUESTION: I'm a 73-year-old widow who receives about $1,150 a month
from Social Security and a pension. I own a small home valued at about $100,000,
but no other assets. I have about $25,000 in debt that requires payments
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Company making $40 mln payment to Financial Freedom CEO
Marketwatch.com, July 5th, 2006
IndyMac Bancorp on Wednesday said it'll pay $40 million to the chief executive of
its reverse-mortgage unit, Financial Freedom, as it ruled out an initial
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Money, challenge, lures of 2nd career
The Journal-Gazette, July 4th, 2006
After 24 years with Delta Air Lines, Nancy Stiefvater took an
early-retirement package in the summer of 2001 but thought she had “too
much to offer” to retire or live out
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Chicago Tribune, July 3rd, 2006
Entrepreneurship ranked at the bottom
of a list of key job factors Baby Boomers and active retirees consider
for an ideal retirement job, according to a survey released recently by
RetirementJobs.com.
Flexibility
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