News For, By and About People
By Dr. Daneen Skube
Tribune Media Services
Q. There are so many things wrong with my current job that it would take a book to list them all. I know a lot of people these days are saying it is good for my peace of mind and spiritual development to be in the now. How do you “be in the now” when reality sucks?
By Mark Miller
Tribune Media Services
If you’ve spent hours analyzing the investment strategies of the mutual funds in your retirement portfolio, here’s some bad news: You could have saved a lot of time just focusing on the fees.
Shakara Tyler is a Penn State University senior majoring in Agricultural Sciences with two minors in Agricultural Communications and Law and Liberal Arts. During the summer of 2010 she was a research scholar at Michigan State University in the Summer Research Opportunities Program.
She writes about the plight of minorities in agriculture.
Meet the new boss: you.
Flat abs and bulging biceps are improvements brought on by exercise. Less visible but more significant are the structural improvements aerobic exercise make to your heart — improvements that can take you from feeling like a junker car to purring like a Ferrari.
Q. I work with a guy and can tell we are both extremely attracted to each other. We are both married and I don’t want an affair. How do I handle the sexual tension?
The Bureau of Labor and Statistics reports that the unemployment rate for teens this summer is expected to be 26.4 percent — the highest number since they began tracking in 1948. Double that number and you begin to come close to the unemployment rate for black and Hispanic teens. Summer jobs that many of us were accustomed to growing up are virtually non-existent. Research shows a direct correlation to criminal activity and lack of meaningful work experience among teens.
No matter what changes are made, it’s a sure bet Social Security isn’t going away anytime soon-and it’s 100 percent certain that the program will be one of your most important sources of security in retirement. But the amount you’ll receive over the course of your retirement isn’t assured or automatic.
Work in retirement? It might sound like a contradiction in terms, but we’re looking for ways to achieve financial security over a retirement that could last 20 years or more. One of the best ways to do that is to work just a little longer than you might have planned. Working for even a few additional years can pay a surprisingly large bonus.
By Robert Pagliarini, Tribune Media Services