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...denial about the savings and financial planning needed for a comfortable retirement, baby boomers may finally be catching on. A growing number say they'll retire after age 65, and 70% of all workers now plan to labor at least part-time after quitting their careers, according to a survey by the nonprofit Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI). Three years of slumping stocks and a crummy job market have taken their toll, but eyes have been opened. The future can be good--really--if you focus on the positive aspects of extending your career and make a few smart financial...
...Mental Health Awareness Week, although I suspect that most Harvard students have been too stressed out writing term papers to notice. Daily events have been scheduled to draw attention to the high levels of mental health problems at Harvard. Those problems were starkly demonstrated by a University Health Services survey that was released last month, showing that 47.4 percent of students reported feeling depressed during the previous academic year. Even more worryingly, the survey revealed that almost 10 percent of the students who responded had considered committing suicide...
Last fall, almost a quarter of the undergraduate population participated in the Entrée Preference Survey conducted by Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS). Since no one would expect HUDS to read through each and every open-ended response, one might have expected few students to bother giving long and creative answers...
...according to results from McLoskey’s online survey, 95 percent of Latter Day Skates customers aren’t Mormon and don’t understand the puns and references. McLoskey is undeterred by the lack of Mormon know-how among his clientele. In fact, he regards his inroads with the non-Mormon demographic as a “sign of success” for his company...
...that they can be can cost them dearly: 41% report that they earn less while deployed than in their civilian jobs, according to the latest Pentagon survey, which predates the massive call-ups that began with 9/11. Employers are required by law to hold their jobs but are not required to make up the difference between what their workers were earning and what the military pays. Some employers do. When Tyson Foods CEO John Tyson learned last fall that about-to-be-activated employee David Rook was being forced to sell his family's dream house, the poultry firm instituted...