Social Security insolvency would be a disaster for NC seniors
In our latest CJ Poll, one of the highest concerns among voters was Social Security and Medicare, the two behemoth entitlement programs that seniors rely on after retirement.
State government retirees are urging the North Carolina Supreme Court to allow their 14-year-old lawsuit against the State Health Plan to move forward to trial.
The legislature should amend our state’s mandate on financial education to include basic information on investing for retirement.
A new report by the McKinsey Global Institute sounds the alarm on what it calls one of the most significant and under-discussed global issues facing advanced economies: Population decline driven by falling fertility rates. With two-thirds of the world living in countries where fertility rates are below the replacement rate of 2.1 children per family,...
North Carolina ranked in the top five states for inbound migration in 2024, with Wilmington the fastest-growing metro area.
Taking concrete steps to lower relative healthcare costs, by allowing an increase in our competitive options for care, should be NC's New Year's resolution.
If you live in North Carolina, you have about 8 weeks. That is the amount of time that voters have to get candidates running for office to take a stand on the future of Social Security. Because once parties have picked their candidates in the primaries, the time will have passed. Campaigns at that point...
Congresswoman and House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC5) and Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI) introduced legislation Tuesday that would repeal President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan that would cost taxpayers billions of dollars.
Remember the old Mastercard commercials? Flight from Raleigh to Las Vegas: $700 Tickets to Rod Stewart: $300 An invitation to spend the weekend with my son and daughter-in-law: Priceless. My son called a couple of months ago asking if my husband and I wanted to join him and his wife in Las Vegas to see...
At a certain age, everyone begins to wonder, “Have I saved enough for retirement?” For most people, the answer is that they have not and will not. Governments have not saved enough for retirement, either, whether in the form of Social Security and Medicare for all seniors or pensions and health benefits for government employees....
The federal government has prosecuted the Bernie Madoffs of the world, despite running the largest pyramid scheme in the history of the world.
Retirement brings new access to a complicated maze of federal government bureaucracy.