http://aging.senate.gov/index.cfm? Fuseaction=Hearings.Detail&HearingID=30 Social Security: Whose Trust Will Be Broken? Links to prepared testimony. Witnesses...
That's one small step for a woman..one Giant leap for mankind! *** IBM lawsuit Judge Murphy Ruling Judge Murphy just put out his ruling... (Bear in mind that...
White House 'delayed 9-11 report' By Shaun Waterman UPI Homeland and National Security Editor Published 7/25/2003 8:11 PM (Editor's note: What follows is a...
I saw on TV the other day, a reporter noting our sending the aircraft carrier off the coast of Liberia, asked Bush if we were going to have another war. He...
Everything Is Political By PAUL KRUGMAN The erosion of the Treasury's intellectual integrity is exemplified by its denial and deception on the subject of tax...
Andy, As I read them, the ERISA regs on DB plans say that: (1) A person can never be told they are "too old" or "have too many years" with the company to have...
Andy, Another thing that's been rattling around in my brain: In THEORY could one legally put a cash-balance plan in place as an amendment to a defined...
http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=sojomail.display&issue=080603#2 Econ for Pentagon Dummies (or, When Free-Market Fundamentalism Gets out of Hand) by...
August 7, 2003 Despair of the Jobless By BOB HERBERT The folks who put the voodoo back in economics keep telling us that prosperity is just around the corner....
This is the first of three excerpts we are publishing this month from Jim Hightower's forthcoming book, Thieves In High Places. There are three things you...
AUGUST 25, 2003 NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY By Nanette Byrnes Commentary: Pensions That Discriminate against Older Workers Kathi Cooper is something of a...
Deficit Strains Pension Agency Guaranteed Benefits in No Danger Now, but Long-Term Worry Grows By Albert B. Crenshaw Washington Post Staff Writer Friday,...
Guess which profession puts in most of these programs? Delta's Retention Program Fails To Stop Some Executive Departures By EVAN PEREZ and THEO FRANCIS Staff...
"George Soros Donates $10 Million to Anti-Bush PAC: 'The fate of the world depends on the United States, and President Bush is leading us in the wrong...
"The self-interest of most people generally coincides with the common good." Get With The People This is the second of three excerpts we are publishing this...
Interested in following Paul Krugman's twice-weekly columns in the New York Times? A new listserve has just been set up that will deliver them to your e-mail...
Since the mid-80s I have known that all retiree medical systems needed actuarial advance funding just as all pension systems do--so that a substantial part of...
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/16/opinion/16SAT3.html ... As Mr. Bush's "growth" program rolls out, the richest 1 percent of Americans can expect an estimated...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1224-2003Aug15.html ... Employers and politicians use globalization as an excuse to do nothing for low-wage...
It is not exactly the smartest thing in the world for your retirement investments to put all, or even most, of your eggs in one basket...yet here we go again. ...
Deregulation and privatization, the twin evils of the the GOP. The Road to Ruin By PAUL KRUGMAN The power industry's failure to adequately maintain the grid's...
New York Observer Four 9/11 Moms Battle Bush by Gail Sheehy In mid-June, F.B.I. director Robert Mueller III and several senior agents in the bureau received a...
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pdupont/?id=110003852 Opinion: Social Security About To Plunge, But Retirement Benefits Don't Have To Excerpt: "Have...
__The Big Dog Wows 'em at the Aspen Institute The psychic heart of the conference was Bill Clinton. "He was in campaign mode but without the restraints of...
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,1028633,00.html ... Tony Blair gave the go-ahead to the strategy that led to Dr David Kelly being named,...
__Regulation-haters Spreading More Lies Joe Conason writes, "As a deregulation enthusiast and loyal Republican, [FirstEnergy's Anthony] Alexander raised more...