Tag: retirement

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Getting or keeping health insurance is central to many of the major decisions that working Americans make. Canadian and European governments provide universal health care to their citizens, but this country has relied heavily on employers for health insurance, and only about two-thirds of them provide it. It’ll be fascinating to see how health car…

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Determining how much money one will need in retirement is a mathematically and psychologically daunting task for many Americans. But new research has landed on a deceptively simple strategy for prodding workers to save. Employees in an experiment at the University of Minnesota saved more for retirement after researchers provided them with a personalized chart…