All the campaign rhetoric leading up to Election Day 2018 next Tuesday is enough to give you a headache. Maybe that’s one reason why high prescription drug prices have become a major concern among older voters for the midterm elections. “This is a pain… Continue reading
Political hate. Religious hate. Racial hate. Gay hate. The past few days have laid bare what few of us like to acknowledge. For all the bounty and blessings of living in this country — and there are many — there is also a river of hate that runs throug… Continue reading
Back in the days before Halloween became an industry — it’s now an occasion to plant “gravestones” in the front yard or a giant inflatable vampire in the driveway, all to frighten trick-or-treaters — my father was achieving the same goal with a simple … Continue reading
Let me tell you about three long-time truck drivers and Teamsters who I met recently. They have a sad and interesting tale I think you’ll want to know if you’ll be retiring soon or are already retired. Bob McNattin, now 80, lost his job and his house d… Continue reading
On Saturday, Oct. 27, a hate-spewing 46-year-old man stormed a Pittsburgh synagogue and made a cruel mockery of its very name — the Tree of Life — by unleashing a volley of gunfire that extinguished 11 lives. The savage attack, the third on a house of … Continue reading
The financial planning profession has a big problem: less than 3.5 percent of all the 80,000 Certified Financial Planners (CFP) in the U.S. are black or Latino — just 2,700. The CFP Board Center for Financial Planning released a survey four months ago … Continue reading
(Editor’s note: The Centers for Disease Control — CDC — reported Thursday its estimate of the overall effectiveness of this season’s influenza vaccination is 47 percent. For people age 50 and older, the estimate is just 24 percent. Yet, the CDC continu… Continue reading
Back in 2013, I blogged on Next Avenue about the excellent PBS FRONTLINE documentary, The Retirement Gamble, where correspondent Martin Smith reported on America’s troubling retirement savings crisis. He’s now back with a riveting sequel airing Tuesday… Continue reading
(This article was written by a member of the 2018-2019 Encore Public Voices Fellows Program.) The landmark report issued last week by the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the international body for assessing climate change, w… Continue reading
There’s something compelling about a “Best Places” list that’s tough to resist. And as someone who often writes about entrepreneurship, I was doubly intrigued by the new LendingTree ranking: The Best Cities for Baby Boomer Entrepreneurs, which compared… Continue reading