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Financial advisers often encourage older workers to delay signing up for their Social Security as long as possible to maximize their monthly income. But several of our blog’s readers point out, rightly, that this isn’t always possible for people in physically taxing jobs. Blue-collar workers are in a real Catch-22, caught between the unforgiving financia…

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During COVID, some companies that instituted remote work were almost giddy about the increase in employee productivity. Workers themselves were certainly convinced of this. But that view is being undermined by some high-quality research that benefits from having more data and perspective on this pandemic-era issue. U.S. economists studying productivity in India’s high-tech sector, and…