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...study showed workers have also become more skeptical about government benefit programs' being there for them in retirement. Approximately 42% said they were "not at all confident" that they would receive Social Security benefits in retirement that would be comparable to the benefits current retirees receive, which is up from 33% a year ago, and 38% were skeptical they'd get Medicare benefits at comparable levels to today's retirees, up from 27% a year earlier...
...have expired or will expire soon could save Americans up to $108 billion in the first 10 years and as much as $378 billion over two decades. "It's the low-hanging fruit," says Mark Merritt, head of the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, the trade organization for prescription-drug-benefit managers. "If you can't get this right on cost control, what can you get right...
...confidence." This can be a fiduciary duty, which an officer of a company would have to a firm's shareholders (perhaps an Intel managing director), or - as the Supreme Court has more recently found - a lower-level employee who has a broader duty to not share, or personally benefit from, his firm's proprietary information (maybe a McKinsey consultant...
Nonetheless, many AIDS experts applauded the findings as a crucial starting point for further research. Some say that as slight as it was, the vaccine benefit discovered in the trial may eventually help scientists develop a workable AIDS vaccine - a goal that has eluded them for more than two decades. "Having this signal - even if it's weak and even if we're debating whether it's a real signal or not - is a source of great hope," said Nicole Frahm, an HIV specialist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, while attending the annual AIDS vaccine conference...
...more unreachable. Though the government and private donors have stepped in to ease the financial crunch, the runaway costs of higher education threaten to make it unaffordable, especially to those who stand to gain the most from it. As the College Board report makes clear, the real-world benefit of college is not simply academic: the unemployment rate for those with bachelor's degrees is just half that for people with high school diplomas alone. Among those with bachelor's degrees, the median family income was $101,099 in 2008 - twice the family income for high school graduates...