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5 Alternatives to Traditional Benefits You Should Ask About at Your Job

Kathy Landin — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:00:41 +0000

Running a business is expensive, starting with paying your employees' salaries. Providing benefits to those employees is even more expensive. But if a company wants to stay competitive and appeal to top professionals in its industry, or if it just wants to improve morale and reduce turnover, then it must provide benefits to employees above and beyond their salaries.

Two Million Americans Could Lose Unemployment Benefits — Dollars and Sense

Mike Adams — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:26:29 +0000

Federal unemployment benefits are set to run out this holiday season for over 2 million Americans out there still looking for work. Their only chance for survival is if Congress decides to extend the deadline for them to file for an extension for those benefits. However, with amendments to the program made already earlier this year, the outcome appears very bleak.

Social Security Benefits Will Increase, but Not Very Much — Dollars and Sense

Mike Adams — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 14:42:32 +0000

Recipients of Social Security benefits will see a slightly less than 2 percent cost-of-living increase next year, according to an estimate by the American Institute for Economic Research.