Retiring: After Years Out of a Job, Older Workers Find a Way Back In

Hit hard by the economic downturn, older job-seekers are finding that courses — online or off — can provide the bridge back to the work force.

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U.S. Offers Account to Encourage Retirement Saving

MyRA is aimed at people who have no retirement plan at work and lets them have money deducted from their paychecks or make electronic transfers.

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Special Section: When Making Donations, Know an Agency’s Needs

Giving feels good, but sometimes what we think is doing good might actually be doing harm.

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HEB Grocery Chain to Give Stock to 55,000 Employees

The privately held company, based in Texas, said it would give eligible workers nonvoting shares worth 3 percent of their salary starting in January.

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Rarely Used Social Security Loopholes, Worth Thousands of Dollars, Closed

As part of the federal budget bill passed this week, retirees will no longer be permitted to use certain strategies to increase the amount they collect by as much as tens of thousands of dollars.

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