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...study, released Thursday by Sun Life Financial, shows that 65% of Americans no longer believe they can retire when they had previously expected to, up 11 percentage points from a similar survey done at the end of 2008. The study, which polled 1,451 workers from Aug. 14 to Sept. 14, found a record 28% expect to be working full time past age 67, up from 20% surveyed...
...degree of the shift was surprising," says Wes Thompson, president of Sun Life Financial in the U.S. The economic environment was already troubling when the survey was done a year ago, and "we didn't expect the jump to be as significant - up to 65%" during the latest poll, he says. (See 10 big recession surprises...
...expect Obama to dwell much on the result of the New Jersey race after the Nov. 3 elections. The state's political institutions are in too much turmoil. And as it stands, Obama and his advisers are having enough trouble trying to change the system in Washington...
...events. (An auction of ephemera and propaganda from China under Mao, including the first Hebrew edition of the Little Red Book, takes place on Nov. 5.) There's a high tweed-jacket count - book-collecting seems to be the province of silver-haired gentlemen, who bid courteously and quietly. Expect shelves crammed with leather-bound books and many more in cardboard boxes on the floor. Heaven for bibliophiles...
...here, the recruitment company doesn't get any money," she says. "It doesn't make sense that there is no naturalization process for someone who was born here or someone who lived here as a refugee for 10 years. They are people, not machines. You can't expect them not to fall in love, not to give birth...