Photo by Halfpoint / Shutterstock.com It’s called the American Jobs Plan, but the document released by the White House Wednesday is devoted to building infrastructure as much as it is to building jobs. In it, President Joe Biden calls for everything from repairing roads and bridges to modernizing public transportation …
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The OxyContin maker filed its long-awaited restructuring plan in bankruptcy court. Revenue from the new company would go exclusively to abating the opioid crisis. In a filing that signifies the beginning of the end of the country’s most notorious manufacturer of prescription opioids, Purdue Pharma submitted its bankruptcy restructuring plan …
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EdBockStock / Shutterstock.com A secure retirement is in your hands — and nobody else’s. For better or worse, we all have to finance our own retirement. Sure, Social Security and Medicare will help. But workplace pensions are rare, and few will inherit fortunes from their parents, or anyone else. Fortunately, …
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Photo by fizkes / Shutterstock.com It’s the heart of December, and while this crazy year is finally coming to an end, we’re still very much in the middle of winter. As we settle into the cold season, now is a great time to warm yourself up by the fire and …
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Most Americans make poor choices. So do most professional insurance brokers, a new study finds. But robots may help. Paul Rickards Anya Samek, an economist, has found that consumers make better choices among health plans when presented with a few simple calculations. So when she switched jobs last year and …
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As the first coronavirus vaccines arrive in the coming year, government researchers will face a monumental challenge: monitoring the health of hundreds of millions of Americans to ensure the vaccines don’t cause harm. Purely by chance, thousands of vaccinated people will have heart attacks, strokes and other illnesses shortly after …
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[This is a paid article with HP Inc. Malaysia.] Over the past few months, many businesses started to adopt and innovate different approaches to their operations. For some, they’ve transitioned into an online business and for others, they’ve adapted their workforce to become more mobile to work from anywhere or …
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Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now If you feel the need to keep up with cutting-edge video game hardware, 2020 is a rough year thanks to the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and Nvidia’s RTX 3080 GPU. That’s especially true if the pandemic has put a …
Read More »Rawpixel.com / Shutterstock.com This story originally appeared on NewRetirement. Everyone knows that they need a retirement plan. But that means different things to different people, and not every plan counts as a truly useful retirement plan. Sometimes a retirement plan is something that is prepared for you by a professional. …
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