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2 hrs ago | Patch.com

2013 Hurricane Season: Potential Flooding, Power Outages On Tap This Summer

Hurricanes and severe storms are a part of summertime in Northern Virginia and experts are predicting a number of Hurricane experts predict that this year's hurricane season could yield four major hurricanes this year in the Atlantic in the 2013 season.

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Related Topix: Hurricane, Natural Disasters, Virginia, Virginia Government, Weather, Computers, Personal Finance

5 hrs ago | Myrtle Beach Online

Q&A: Vanguard founder sees retirement system as broken, but curable

Few American business leaders are as connected to the concepts of saving and long-term investing as John C. Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Retirement, Pension, Business News

9 hrs ago | Star Tribune

Column: Dustups have government's role in common

A big brother you can trust to keep you safe, give you a hand and do right by you? Or a big brother who snoops, lies and bullies you in all corners of your life? There's a common thread running through a series of controversies dogging President Barack Obama: the federal government, and conflicting interpretations of what it is.

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Related Topix: 2012 Presidential Election, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Immigration Reform, Personal Finance

14 hrs ago | Fox News

NY regulator questions investment firms' ties to insurers: WSJ

New York's top financial regulator has sent subpoenas to several firms seeking information on investments that guarantee steady payments to hundreds of thousands of retirees and other consumers, the Wall Street Journal said on Monday, citing people familiar with the inquiry.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Retirement, Business News

Sun May 19, 2013

The Montgomery Advertiser

Identity theft: Rates in River Region among nation's worst

It's been a few years since Lil Martin had her personal and business accounts raided in two separate identity theft cases, and she does things much differently now.

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Related Topix: Montgomery, AL, Personal Finance

The Motley Fool

3 Retirement Planning Musts for Women

Women live longer, make less money, and take care of loved ones more often than men.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Retirement, Long Term Care, Health

The Jersey Journal

Left out of federal Sandy relief, owners of second homes hope for help

Seaside Heights mayor Bill Akers walks a reporter around the 400 block of Hiering Avenue.

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Related Topix: Seaside Heights, NJ, Hurricane, Weather, Hurricane Sandy, FEMA, US News, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

Denton Record-Chronicle

Scott Burns: Pre-retirees in precarious financial condition

That famous quote from Benjamin Franklin came to mind as I read a paper by three researchers who've made important contributions to the study of retirement finance: James M. Poterba at MIT, Steven F. Venti at Dartmouth and David A. Wise at Harvard.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Retirement, Pension, Long Term Care, Health

Evansville Courier & Press

Phone assistance program leaves many exposed to identity theft

U.S. households finance Lifeline through a monthly fee on their phone bills of roughly $2.70. The Universal Service Charge backs several federal communications programs, including Lifeline, a subsidy to make phone service accessible to the poor.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance

Sat May 18, 2013

Patch.com

Alleged Social Security Scammer: Weird Crime News

Each week, Patch combs through the more shocking, surprising and often absurd allegedly criminal acts and police-related incidents that unfold around the region.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Personal Finance, Oaklyn, NJ, Collingswood, NJ, Offbeat

Salon

How right-wingers use semantic tricks to kill government

"Semantic infiltration" is a term coined by the foreign policy expert Fred Ikle and popularized by the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Healthcare Law, Law

The New Zealand Herald

Brian Gaynor: Optimism plays part in big-picture Budget

During Robert Muldoon's time in power in the 1970s and early 1980s Budget statements were all about micro issues.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance

OurFuture.org

New Evidence That We Need To Strengthen Social Security, Not Weaken It

According to a Pew Charitable Trusts study released Thursday, baby boomers and Generation Xers are increasingly unlikely to be able to afford the costs of retirement, making critical the need for a strong Social Security program to bridge this income gap.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Family, Elderly (Senior Citizen), Tom Harkin, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Home, Mortgage, Liberal Political News

Examiner.com

What does not show up when a credit check is done on you

Having a credit check ran on you is not the same as having a background check conducted on you.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance

WSOCTV

Information for 10K job applicants exposed in security breach

A local healthcare company is now trying to contact 10,000 job applicants whose private information was exposed in a major security breach.

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News Times

Newtown officials withhold death certificates

More than five months after the Sandy Hook shootings, the town clerk's office is steadfast in its refusal to release death certificates for those slain Dec.

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Related Topix: Newtown, CT, Sandy Hook, CT, Personal Finance

Fri May 17, 2013

Patch.com

Jury Duty Scam Targets Illinois Residents

Due to the extreme penalties behind missing jury duty, scammers are preying on victims' fear of legal action by pretending to be "jury duty coordinators" questioning consumers about recent jury duty summons.

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WHDH

CBO: Obama budget cuts deficits $1.1T by 2023

President Barack Obama's budget would trim projected federal deficits by $1.1 trillion over the coming decade, using nearly $6 in higher revenues for every $1 in reduced spending to achieve it, Congress' nonpartisan budget analyst said Friday.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Republican, US House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, Chris Van Hollen, Democrat, Personal Finance

The Post-Standard

The rich should give up Social Security

Copies of President Barack Obama's proposed federal budget plan for fiscal year 2014 are prepared for delivery at the U.S. Government Printing Office in Washington.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Opinion

Mississippi Business Journal

TROTTER: Social security claiming strategies

Today almost half of those filing for Social Security benefits do so at age 62, the earliest age to which the law makes eligible.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance