If you want to know why Americans are so grumpy about the economy, let’s start with the fact that despite strong job growth and sizable increases in wages, their incomes are simply not keeping up with inflation. Americans just don’t feel poorer — they are poorer. In fact, they have never lost so much purchasing…
A couple of months ago, our five-year-old son was relieved to find out that he could have two best friends. For weeks he’d been stuck in an innocent adolescent triangle where both kids wanted him to be their exclusive bestie. They would pull his arms at the playground and he would come home agonizing about…
I’m a working-from-home mom and my supervisors have no intentions of bringing me back to the office at this time. In order to actually get work done, I have pieced together childcare using the help of family and friends. I have one friend who has really gone above and beyond to adjust her own flexible…
In an effort to improve Americans’ retirement security, Congress is working on the Secure Act 2.0 – but there’s more it can do, experts say. The House passed the Securing a Strong Retirement Act, and two Senate committees advanced their own legislative proposals focused on retirement savings – one from the Health, Education, Labor and…
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The threat of recession amid a shrinking economy may force a return to the office for employees. Or the end to the office as we know it. Those are the two wildly differing opinions emerging on the future of the work-from-home movement, which has become a way of life for tens of millions of Americans…
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Corporate America is geared to the pursuit of green, but it’s been leaning increasingly red or blue over the past decade. That development may be unwelcome news for shareholders, even if the political beliefs of the company brass align with their own. That’s according to a study released Monday suggesting corporate C-suites have become as…
Not all committed couples intend to walk down the aisle to say “I do,” but LGBTQ partners will need extra retirement and estate planning to ensure a secure old age – and protect each other thereafter if they choose not to marry. June 26 marked the seventh anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court Obergefell v….
As the stock market contracts and the tech industry likely faces a downturn and belt-tightening, there’s some predictable chatter that employees working from home or hybrid may suffer. But any leader who penalizes or rolls back flexible work policies at this moment is making a massive mistake. In uncertain times, you need to keep top…
The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and hand abortion laws solely back to the states will exact a price on woman, diminishing their “opportunities to participate fully and equally in the nation’s political, social, and economic life,” according to a scathing dissent from the court’s liberal wing that dug. into the financial…
Hello and welcome to Financial Face-off, a MarketWatch column where we help you weigh financial decisions. Our columnist will give her verdict. Tell us whether you think she’s right in the comments. And please share your suggestions for future Financial Face-off columns. Summer is here, and so is your chance to get away from it…
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