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Tag: Cost Of Living

Eat Your Cat Food, Mrs. Robinson

The new cost-of-living index proposed in Obama’s latest budget is really a means to push lower living standards on people who need Social Security, University of Missouri economist Michael Hudson says.

Posted on Apr 12, 2013 READ MORE

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Workers Can’t Save Enough to Retire

A survey found that more than half of Americans have less than $25,000 in savings and investments excluding their homes, while 28 percent doubt they will have enough money to retire comfortably—a high in more than two decades of study.

Posted on Mar 19, 2013 READ MORE

AP / Eranga Jayawardena

Sri Lanka’s Produce Army

Watch out Whole Foods. The Sri Lankan army, having triumphed in its long fight against the rebel Tamil Tigers, has now turned to selling vegetables to the country’s poor at reduced prices to help them through hard times.