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...Privatization also favors the better off who have the resources and knowledge to dabble in the stock market, say its critics. Low-income workers would be out of their element. It could also put a heavy administrative burden on both the Social Security system and small businesses not experienced in running 401K's. The Social Security system is a fairly straightforward operation for both the government and businesses. Taxes are deducted from paychecks and sent to the federal government at regular intervals. Checks are mailed out to retirees. That's about it. But managing a 401K plan...
...many women are also steered towards lower-wage "caregiver" jobs like nursing and teaching - rather than high-powered careers in medicine or finance - because it?s assumed that women are better at those jobs than men. And perhaps we are. So let?s take steps to eliminating the economic burden of taking on those critical jobs: We need to make sure nurses and kindergarten teachers and social workers are paid on par with so-called "male" jobs like construction and plumbing. Is your child?s well-being or your parents? health care inherently worth less than having an efficient drain...
Those of us single parents who date inevitably carry the burden of our previous experiences, and the ex-spouses and kids in our lives can make it feel as if a whole crowd of people is looking over our shoulder. The stakes can seem impossibly high as we wrestle with a very natural instinct to build a new nuclear family. We want to improve on the family that failed and reclaim that hopeful picture of husband, wife and kids we once had in our head...
TILL DEATH DO US PART It is what every senior couple dreads--one of the two becomes terminally ill, and the other strains under the grim burden of caring for a dying mate. The stress often takes a physical toll, but these caregivers suffer less depression, lose less weight and take better care of themselves after the death of their spouse than someone whose husband or wife dies suddenly, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Why? The foreknowledge of the death allows the caregiver to grieve as well as prepare for the death. Also...
...that Pearl Harbor is a wimpy movie. Plenty of things explode, but it's the most serious-minded film of Bruckheimer's career, and it has arrived with not only some of the greatest hype in history but the burden of history as well. Critics will tell you in no uncertain terms that it creaks under this weight. Bruckheimer will tell you he doesn't need their approval. "If I had to go by reviews, I wouldn't be making movies," says the producer, sounding a little grumpy, just hours after the New York Times called Pearl Harbor "defiantly, extravagantly...