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City school police seek better benefits for injuries in line of duty
When city school police officer Joseph Baribeault attempted to arrest two combative students at the old Greenspring Middle School, he ended up injured at the bottom of two flights of concrete stairs. Even though the city has acknowledged his disabilities...
Tags: Laws, Coppin State University, Social Security, Law Enforcement, William Donald Schaefer
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More than 25% of Americans raiding 401(k)s to pay bills
More than 25% of Americans are dipping into 401(k) retirement accounts to pay for bills. U.S. workers are tapping into nearly a quarter of the $293 billion placed into their retirement savings each year to pay for mortgages, credit cards and other...
Tags: Finance, Employees, Rick Perry, The Washington Post, Career and Workplace
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Letters from readers
Retire SmartTime to clean out the inbox and answer the most frequently asked reader questions! Q. I'm 43 and have just changed jobs. I have approximately $10,000 in my old 401(k) and I am not sure what to do with it. Help! -- Dana A. When you leave a job, there are...Tags: Finance, Personal Finance, Mutual Funds, Employment Opportunities, Stock Market
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Discover CEO pay package drops to $9.9M
Tribune staff reporterDiscover Financial Services' Chairman and CEO David Nelms received a pay package worth $9.9 million last year, down 28 percent from 2011 mostly due to the lower value of his stock awards, according to a regulatory filing Friday. Nelms took home a base...Tags: CEO Pay, Corporate Officers, Discover Financial Services
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MarksJarvis: Dow record wipes away losses, but will it restore our trust?
Finally there. Investors had to wait more than five years, but the Dow Jones industrial average has wiped away the most terrifying period in stock market history since the Great Depression. Long-term stockholders, who lost 54 percent of their money...
Tags: Rodney Dangerfield, Financial Markets, Finance, Stock Market, Federal Reserve
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David Leroi: Speaking truth to superpowers
The comic-book superheroes in David Leroi's paintings are brash and muscular and, perhaps most-intimidating of all, they pick up a newspaper once in a while. X-Men's the Beast talks of a jobless America. Iron Man complains that his rocket shoes have...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Arts, Culture, Fine Artists, Mutual Funds
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Money questions you should ask before accepting a job offer
Brazen CareeristBrazen Careerist Finding the right job is never easy, and a recession that has caused employers to be gun-shy on hiring has made it even harder. So it's easy to understand how it might be tempting to jump at an offer for a job that seems to meet your...Tags: Finance, Health Insurance, Advice Columns and Columnists, Companies and Corporations, Corporate Performance
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Draft pension legislation closes current pension plan, creates 401k-style plan
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelTALLAHASSEE — A panel of Florida lawmakers is currently debating major changes to the state's pension system. The plan on the table? To totally do away with the current pension plan for new employees starting on and after January 2014 and instead... -
Reboot your retirement
Retire SmartDecember marked the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the Great Recession, and for many Americans, it has taken all of that time to get their retirement planning back on track. According to Fidelity Investment's analysis of its 12 million 401(k)...Tags: Politics, Finance, Health Insurance Cost, Personal Finance, Retirement Planning Services
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Survive your personal 'fiscal cliff'
The year begins with a walk to the edge of the "fiscal cliff" and a nauseating look below. Have you dared look over the edge of your own cliff, or has the fear of falling kept you from contemplating the possibility of another recession, job losses,...
Tags: Social Security, Fiscal Cliff, Employment Opportunities, La-Z-Boy Incorporated, Employment
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A crucial step toward retirement security for the working class
It's amazing, and depressing, when political compromise functions only to throw obstacles in the way of ideas that bring the greatest good to the greatest number of people. Today's example: the long, tortuous road to bringing more retirement security to...
Tags: Los Angeles Times Columnists, Social Security, U.S. Congress, Interior Policy, Science and Technology
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Retirement: Choosing investments for your 401(k)
Kiplinger's Money PowerCompanies offer an average of 19 choices in their 401(k)s. But the number can go as high as 70 or even 100 -- a selection that you may find overwhelming. Take a deep breath. Whatever the menu, you'll likely see actively managed domestic and international...Tags: Morningstar Incorporated, Finance, Mutual Funds, Economy, Business and Finance
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