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Social Security choice: Benefit cuts or tax increases (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Social Security provides a majority of the income for about two-thirds of Americans over age 65, but if you're in your mid-50s or younger, it might be time to make alternative arrangements. Experts don't expect Social Security to disappear in the coming decades.
Lisa Mirza Grotts: Social Media: The Choice of a New Generation (The Huffington Post)
Not another set of rules? I'm afraid so. Today's new forms of social media--Facebook, Twitter, blogging, Skype, texting, YouTube, Instant Messaging, and those indispensable smart...
Breaking down Social Security (Anchorage Daily News)
How good or bad is the Social Security retirement benefit? How does it compare with a hypothetical 401(k) plan with identical contribution rates? How does the Social Security retirement benefit compare with the retiree's immediate pre-retirement annual earnings? Is Social Security a welfare program or just another regressive tax that bears more heavily on low income folks than it does on high ...
Social media undermines publication ban (CBC.ca)
The dramatic escape of a Moncton grandmother after nearly a month in captivity has stunned the province but it has also highlighted the problems of court-ordered publications bans being obeyed with the dramatic use of social media.
The finesse behind collecting Social Security (Pocono Record)
The role of Social Security in retirement is often underappreciated.
Social work: Doing it for the kids (Guardian Unlimited)
No one goes into social work for the money, but £15,000 bursaries and on-the-job training could appeal to graduates looking for a change in career direction. Anna Tims reports In the good times, social work is ignored by the comfortable majority. In the bad, it is relentlessly, damningly publicised. Small wonder, then, that it has not been an obvious career choice for university leavers. While ...
Flint honors 1960's social activist and union organizer (ABC12 Mid-Michigan)
Cesar Chavez, the union organizer and social activist of the 1960's, was honored Saturday in Flint.
Keeping a Closer Eye on Workers’ Social Networking (New York Times)
A service released earlier this week by Teneros, an online communication services company, makes it much easier for companies to keep tabs on their employees’ social networking activities.
Quarter of tweens on social networks (Guardian Unlimited)
Young UK internet users creating social network profiles despite official age limit, annual Ofcom survey finds A quarter of UK internet users aged eight to 12 had profiles on Facebook, Bebo or MySpace last year, research has found, although the lowest minimum age set on any of the sites is 13. Ofcom's annual Children's Media Literacy Audit for 2009 also had bad news for the music industry ...
City may dissolve social services dept. (The Bristol Press)
BRISTOL — The city is looking at dismantling its small social services department.