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An impressive consensus has emerged around the benefits of working from home. More employers have come to accept the practice after being pleasantly surprised at how productive their employees are. If remote workers were once viewed as insufficiently committed to the company, they no longer feel as marginalized. And people seem to like it –…

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Plans satisfy letter of the law but fall short of lifetime benefits, new study shows. About one-quarter of state and local government employees – approximately 6.5 million workers – are not covered by Social Security on their current job.  These workers are concentrated in 12 states (see Table 1).  To remain outside of Social Security,…