‘I can no longer be an executive at a high level’: Workers with disabilities, including long COVID, are finding their place as companies become more flexible

Dana Pollard started a new job at the end of 2022, after spending three years recovering from a 2019 stroke. Pollard, 56, lives in Fort Worth, Texas, with his wife. After the stroke, he could not reco...

GE Healthcare stock to start trading as separation from GE is completed

The first stage of the break up of General Electric Co. GE, +1.76% has been completed, as GE HealthCare Technologies Inc. GEHC, +4.78% has been officially separated and will begin trading Wednesday as...

GE Healthcare will join S&P 500 as soon as it begins trading

GE Healthcare Technologies Inc. will be an S&P 500 stock as soon as it officially exists. General Electric Co. GE, -1.05% expects to spin off its healthcare arm into a separately traded company on...

Workers and retirees are getting some year-end goodies from Washington

America’s workers and retirees are getting some nice year-end gifts from Washington. As part of a bigger bill to keep the government running, Congress has passed, and President Biden has signed, somet...

Morningstar’s List of Best-to-Own Healthcare Stocks

With the S&P 500 having dropped 20% so far this year, it could be a good time to scoop up some bargains in the stock market. Morningstar has put together a list of the “best stocks to own” in vari...

If You’re Ready to Retire, Consider These Cities

When you enter retirement, the first question is where will you live? To help you answer it, Storage Café, an online storage-unit listing service, has put together a ranking of the largest 100 metropo...

Prosecutors Who Grossly Violate The Constitution Must Be Held Accountable

Attorney Felix Vinluan and the Filipino nurses he provided legal advice to. Institute for Justice When attorney Felix Vinluan heard how a local nursing home provider was treating Filipino nurses, he w...

Even Republicans Are Embracing Medicaid Expansion. That’s A Costly Mistake.

“Expanding Medicaid enrollment will only perpetuate the waste that has taken root in the program and … [+] further strain scarce taxpayer resources,” writes Sally Pipes. getty Republ...

Moving into a retirement community, how to know when you have enough saved, the best RMD strategies and more retirement news

From MarketWatch Retirement:  How much should you have saved for retirement? Aim for these age-related benchmarks as you save for retirement. These are the top 10 mistakes people make when planning fo...

Pfizer and Moderna Shares Break Out. Here’s the Trade.

Drug stocks have been on fire lately, and over the past few weeks, the two leading covid-19 vaccine makers, Pfizer  (PFE) – Get Free Report and Moderna  (MRNA) – Get Free Report, have surg...

Do Democrats have momentum for a second round of boosted child tax-credit payments?

A day after Raphael Warnock held onto his seat in Georgia’s Senate race, giving Democrats a 51-49 edge in the Senate, Democrats are hoping that momentum can quickly turn into a financial boost for par...

This trader sees a 43% drop for the S&P 500 and says to take shelter in these ETFs instead.

A day after the Dow DJIA, -0.11% climbed out of bear territory on hopeful comments by Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, stocks look ready to rethink on that optimsim, even after fresh inflation data showed ...

‘My elderly relative determined she could no longer care for herself’: Are her assisted-living facility costs tax deductible?

I have an elderly relative in an assisted-living arrangement in Indiana. She was basically directed to go there from a rehabilitation post-surgery, because they determined that she could no longer car...

Why ‘work longer’ isn’t great retirement advice

Financial planners typically advise you to work for as long as you can, so you can juice up your retirement savings while holding out for a fatter Social Security check. But such advice presumes that ...

Former Silicon Valley Star Elizabeth Holmes Sentenced to Prison

Failed startup founder Elizabeth Holmes received a sentence of over 11 years for the fraud she perpetrated when she duped investors about the effectiveness of a blood testing company. Holmes was sente...

Veteran manager offers 5 ‘cheap, quality, dividend’ stocks that will let you play one of tech’s biggest themes.

2022 may be remembered as the year investors fell out of love with tech stocks. While the Nasdaq Composite COMP, -3.91% is up about 5.3% this quarter, that’s after three dismal ones, and a 28% loss fo...

Pension problems, caregiver burnout, saying ‘no’ to nursing homes and more retirement news

From MarketWatch Retirement:  Here’s why you should be worried about state and local pensions. About 26 million people are relying on state and local pension plans to take care of them in their retire...

3 Undervalued Predictable Health Care Stocks To Put Under The Microscope

Summary The health care sector has had the worst performance year to date. In addition to DaVita, AMN Healthcare Services and HCA Healthcare qualified for the screener. U.S. market indexes were all do...

‘It’s a touchy subject’: My in-laws live in our basement. They gave us our 20% down payment. Should we charge them for renovations?

Last year, my husband and I approached my in-laws to see if they wanted to live with us. We had learned that my father-in-law had terminal cancer but could still live five to seven years in remission,...

‘This has gone on too long’: The bank paid itself $18,000 in fees. My late father’s trust has not been distributed. What recourse do I have?

My father’s father set up a trust at a major bank with my father and the bank’s trust department as co-trustees. My father died at the end of last year; upon his death, the trust was supposed to be di...

Voya to buy Benefitfocus in $570 million deal, Benefitfocus stock skyrockets

Benefits manager Voya Financial VOYA, +0.22% on Tuesday said it agreed to acquire Benefitfocus BNFT, -0.85%, a cloud-based benefits administration tech platform, in a $570 million deal. Shares of Bene...

Jeep Quietly Leaves Huge Market

It is an adventure that ends in total anonymity.  Jeep, the iconic all-terrain brand in the automotive industry, has just quietly left one of the most important automotive markets: China. The Asian gi...

Apple’s Big Problem Gets Bigger

Apple  (AAPL)  has been one of the big surprises of the current quarterly earnings season so far.  The manufacturer of the iPhone and the iPad managed to thwart the most optimistic forecasts during th...

Opinion: Your HSA can be an extra retirement savings — how to make smart choices during open enrollment

It’s open enrollment season, which means it’s time for most workers to choose benefits for the year ahead. Health insurance is one of the most popular benefits that workers review yearly, but there is...

Dialysis company DaVita stock suffering worst day in 22 years after big profit miss, disappointing outlook

Shares of DaVita Inc. plummeted in active trading Friday, toward their worst performance in more than two decades, after the dialysis company reported third-quarter that fell well below expectations a...

Teladoc stock surges after earnings as losses narrow

Shares of Teladoc Health Inc. were up about 13% in after-hours trading Wednesday after the telemedicine company posted a narrower loss than analysts were anticipating for its latest quarter, while sli...

Obamacare Open Enrollment Brings Election Day “Gift” To Voters

WASHINGTON, DC April 5, 2022: US President Joe Biden hands the pen used to sign an Executive Order … [+] to continue to strengthen access to the Affordable Care Act to Former President Barack Ob...

These 11 stocks can lead your portfolio’s rebound after the S&P 500 ‘earnings recession’ and a market bottom next year

This may surprise you: Wall Street analysts expect earnings for the S&P 500 to increase 8% during 2023, despite all the buzz about a possible recession as the Federal Reserve tightens monetary pol...

Social Security COLA, Gen X and boomer money woes, and more retirement news and research

From MarketWatch: Social Security COLA 2023 benefits are rising 8.7% — here’s what that means for recipients: The cost-of-living adjustment for 2023 will be the largest increase for Social Security be...

Apple or Amazon Could Buy These Two Pandemic Stock Darlings

The pandemic created perfect growth conditions for a variety of companies. Some simply added a lot of customers that would have eventually found their product anyway. That’s what happened with t...

UnitedHealth stock surges after earnings beat, another raised outlook

Shares of UnitedHealth Group Inc. surged Friday, after the health insurer reported third-quarter profit and revenue that rose above expectations, and lifted its full-year outlook for a third-straight ...

Baby boomers, Generation X expect to work past 70 — or forever

Almost half of baby boomers and more than one-third of Generation X expect to work past age 70 or do not plan to retire at all, highlighting the need for backup plans in case life’s unexpected events ...