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Govt: No call for Social Security increase in 2011

As if voters don’t have enough to be angry about this election year, the government is expected to announce this week that more than 58 million Social Security recipients will go through another year without an increase in their monthly benefits. It would mark only the second year without an increase since automatic adjustments for inflation were adopted in 1975. The first year was this year. Get the full story »

Companies juggle needs of caregivers

Corporate America must increasingly find ways to accommodate employees who need to take time off to take care of a sick or dying spouse or parent, experts say.

An estimated 48.9 million people, or 21.2 percent of the U.S. population, already provide care to an adult annually, according to a 2009 study by the National Alliance for Caregiving. But that number is expected to increase. Get the full story »