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Turning Gray and Into the Red: The True Cost of Growing Old in America
The U.S. population is aging at such a rate that within a few years, older Americans will outnumber the country’s children for the first...
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Jan 8, 20201 min read


What’s next in legal drama over the Affordable Care Act?
The federal appeals court ruling striking down the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that people have health insurance left hanging key...
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Jan 8, 20201 min read


Public Sector Healthcare Roundtable – Weekly e-News
The Public Sector HealthCare Roundtable is a non-partisan, member-directed coalition that exists to give public sector health care...
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Jan 8, 20201 min read


IRS provides tax inflation adjustments for tax year 2020
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today announced the tax year 2020 annual inflation adjustments for more than 60 tax provisions,...
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Dec 11, 20191 min read


Public Workers Not Covered by Social Security Face Greater Burdens in Financing Retirement
State and local pensions have experienced many changes since the Great Recession. Worried about high costs and a deteriorating fiscal...
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Dec 11, 20191 min read


Spillovers from State and Local Pensions to Social Security: Do Benefits for Uncovered Workers Meet
Federal law allows certain state and local government employees to be excluded from Social Security coverage if they are covered by an...
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Dec 11, 20191 min read


Employers are scaling back their dependence on high-deductible health plans
Everything old is new again. As open enrollment gets underway for next year’s job-based health insurance coverage, some employees are...
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Nov 27, 20191 min read


Older Workers Unable to Retire Cost Employers $50,000 a Year
Because many employers are unaware of the cost of having older workers unable to retire, or think they cannot calculate it, Prudential...
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Nov 27, 20191 min read


What Happens When You Don’t Pay a Hospital Bill
As Americans sink under medical expenses, debt collectors go to great—and sometimes strange—lengths to collect. On March 8, 2011, Joclyn...
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Oct 29, 20191 min read


Many Demands on Middle Class Paychecks
Ask middle-class Americans how they’re doing, and you’ll often get the same answer: there are still too many demands on my paycheck....
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Oct 29, 20191 min read


Medicare Part D’s Effect on Evergreening, Generics, and Drug Prices
The brief’s key findings are: Medicare Part D, introduced in 2006, has clearly helped seniors by expanding drug coverage, but a key...
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Oct 29, 20191 min read


Firefighters Better Able to Track On-The-Job Exposures to Deadly Carcinogens and Health Impacts
New mobile app gathers valuable physical and behavioral health data to help firefighters battle occupational disease. Chantilly, VA....
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Jul 2, 20191 min read


THE IMPLICATIONS OF SOCIAL SECURITY’S “MISSING TRUST FUND”
As policymakers consider restoring financial balance to Social Security, understanding the reason for the shortfall is important. If the...
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Jul 2, 20191 min read


Retirement? Four in 10 Americans don’t see it ever happening
Almost 40% of Americans lack confidence they will ever save enough money to retire. That number climbs even higher among older Americans,...
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Jul 2, 20191 min read


Social Security’s Financial Outlook: The 2019 Update in Perspective
The brief’s key findings are: Contrary to media reports, the 2019 Trustees Report shows little change overall: Social Security’s 75-year...
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Jun 11, 20191 min read


Mayors Score Win in Lawsuit Over Troubled Retirement Plan Endorsement Deal
The U.S. Conference of Mayors for about three years now has been battling in court with a company that previously administered a...
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Jun 11, 20191 min read


Pew: Hawaii’s State Pension Ready to Withstand Recession
Two years after initiating pension reforms that included increased contributions and regular stress testing, the funding projections for...
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May 13, 20191 min read


Editorial | Rotten holiday
If Illinois is going to embrace another public-pension-contribution holiday, shouldn’t the public be informed of what the financial...
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May 12, 20191 min read


"Officers Tell of Deciding to Get Help"
Chicago police Officer Cory Chapton says he finished work one day around 2 p.m., got into his car outside the West Side’s Harrison...
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May 12, 20191 min read


6 Ways Retirement Has Changed Over the Past 25 Years
Twenty-five years ago, Kiplinger’s Retirement Report launched to help readers enjoy a richer retirement. Our first issue, published in...
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Apr 3, 20191 min read
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