| Above the Fold |
September 15, 2011 |
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| Obama debt taming plan would spare Social Security |
| By Jim Kuhnhenn |
| President Barack Obama is backing away from some deficit reduction proposals he considered during failed summer negotiations with House Speaker John Boehner even as he prepares to unveil a broad plan to tackle the nation's debt with a blend of tax revenue and lower spending on health care programs...Read more |
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| CLASS Act alarms ignored |
| By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar |
| Even as leading Democrats offered assurances to the contrary, government experts repeatedly warned that a new long-term care insurance plan could go belly up, saddling taxpayers with another underfunded benefit program, according to emails disclosed by congressional investigators...Read more |
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| Preparing baby boomers for retirement |
| By Amanda McGrory |
| The economy is poor, retirement funds are down, and wages have been stagnant for years. Workers across all generations are feeling the effects, especially the baby boomers who can't afford to retire, says John Sweeney, human resources knowledge adviser for the Society for Human Resource Management...Read more |
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The only way we are going to get a grip on our debt problem is to grow out of it and not to eat our young (read rich).
