| Above the Fold |
October 12, 2011 |
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| Today's News |
| Lawmakers, White House regroup on jobs
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By Andrew Taylor |
Congress and the White House face the choice of continued fighting or a shift toward bipartisan bargaining after the Senate voted to kill President Barack Obama's $447 billion jobs plan...Read more |
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| Online retirement tools spur people to save more |
| By Paula Aven Gladych |
| The market crash of 2008 prompted many individuals to learn more about and take better control of their retirement assets. Because of this trend, many companies offer online tools to help plan participants plug in numbers and see just how well they have planned for retirement...Read more |
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| Employers can't find critical-skill employees |
| By Amanda McGrory |
| "Although economic conditions have improved and hiring rates have increased modestly since 2009, companies are experiencing difficulties finding and recruiting employees with critical skills," says Laura Sejen, global head of rewards consulting at Towers Watson...Read more |
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| The Pulse |
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| Can brokers predict the future? |
| By Bonnie Brazzell and Gil Lowerre |
| The voluntary business is an important economic bellwether. It sounds plausible given that these are discretionary financial product purchases by large numbers of consumers...Read more |
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| Overheard on BenefitsPro |
 I have been waiting for an explanation forever as to how the money put in the budget for the one time stimulus and other "heroic" projects after the 2008 financial melt down somehow it got baked into the cake going forward?
-- geoffreybramhall, Obama: Jobs bill is 'moment of truth' for Senate |
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