Employers Penalizing Spouses For Health Insurance
Here’s a dose of medicine women might not want to swallow: It’s getting more expensive for a wife to get health insurance through her husband’s plan. Employers, it seems, are…
Graduation Advice We All Can Use
Last weekend, I was a proud aunt, beaming and clapping on the quintessential college quad at the Wake Forest University graduation in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. I love it when the…
11 Essential Money Tips for New College Grads
When my nephew Michael walked across the graduation stage at Wake Forest University last week to pick up his bachelor of science diploma, I wasn’t worried about his financial future.…
Women Retire Earlier Than Men, But Don’t Have To
I’m surrounded daily by boomer women who are working full-time or part-time, volunteering, starting businesses and taking courses online as well as at community colleges. They’re engaged, working hard —…
Working in Retirement: How to Be a Patient Advocate
This week, I received an email from a friend who has been caring for his ailing mother. Here’s what he wrote: “I feel very good about what I’ve been able…
The Perils of Working From Home
Earlier in my career as a journalist, I worked in an office. For nearly two decades, I trudged in every day and never did my job from home unless I…
6 Money-Saving Travel Secrets
Who doesn’t love a great travel deal? My husband, Cliff, and I are huge travel enthusiasts and we hit the trail whenever we can. I also get a great fiftysomething…
Making a Move Abroad, and Working There, Too
WHEN Patrice Wynne shuttered her independent bookstore, Gaia, in Berkeley, Calif., and retired, she knew three things. She wanted to move to a place where she could slow down the…
3 Ways Women Can Get Paid More at Work
Does it bum you out that women who work full time make 77 cents for every dollar a man is paid, on average? At 52, I’ve been grappling with this…
Why You Need To Love Your Job More
What’s love got to do with your job? Apparently, quite a bit. I just read the new book, Love 2.0: How Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do and…
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