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Retirement in modern America
by Eleanor Arnason • 9/28/08 • I just asked Patrick why he sighed. He said he was reading a small article. The number of employed people who are over 65 doubled from 1977 to 2007; and the number of those people who work full time rose from 44% to 56% from 1995 to the present.
I am 65. You don’t have the energy you had at 25 or 35 or 45. And if you are working a physical job, you probably go home very tired.
Weekend what's what 10/2-10/4: Dance dance...revolution?
by l’etoile magazine staff • 10/2/08 •
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Times getting tougher for Minnesota workers
From Wall Street to Main Street, news reports and new economic statistics reflect an economy in increasingly serious trouble. MORE »
The great bailout: U of M expert on mortgage crisis says Paulson plan is ‘reverse criminal action’
For some consumer-rights advocates, the great Wall Street bailout is starting to look like a heist for the ages. Prentiss Cox, a professor of law at the U of M and former assistant attorney general, calls Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s bill “outrageous.” Wall Street was the cause of the problem, he says. “And now they want a bailout completely on their terms? It serves the very wealthy and completely ignores the homeowners victimized by this. It is appalling.” MORE »
