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When once-simple financial tasks become difficult or confusing, it can be the canary in the coal mine signaling that an elderly person is developing dementia. Financial problems will soon follow once people with cognitive impairment start miscalculating and missing payments, forgetting and misplacing accounts, or falling victim to fraud. But some good news has com…

student e-learns with help of his teacher in library

Teachers receive less than college educated workers in the private sector and many lack Social Security coverage. Teacher protests in Arizona, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and West Virginia made me look back to a 2011 study on the relative compensation of public and private sector employees.  Our conclusion at the time was that, on average, workers in…