It seems that laziness is now considered a disability.

Many folks have had de facto pay cuts the past few years. Their pay stays the same but the cost of benefits, especially health insurance soars, so their take home pay has been lower each of the past four years. Even those that get raises still have lower take home pay because the cost of benefits rises more than their ...more

They should use the same methodology to measure inflation now as they did before the Boskin Commission.   The politicians manipulate the CPI because by doing that they were able to “cut” Social Security without folks noticing. If they didn’t manipulate the data the average Social Security check would be twice what...more

Companies are doing a lot more with far fewer workers because of computers, robots and the other labor saving devices we have today.   The people are not more productive by themselves, the technology is making them more productive.

It took me less than 2 hours to do the 1040 and I did it the old fashioned way, with a calculator and a pen. to me the software isn’t worth the price. Why pay someone else to do something you can easily do yourself?

Workers are more productive because one person is using computers and robots or other automated process to do work that was once done by many workers.   The money that was invested by the companies in these labor saving devices is what is making workers more productive.   The answer to where is the money going...more

If you are on unemployment you get the card your state gives you, you do not have the option to use a credit union or another bank. The state politicians make deals with certain banks and those are the banks you are required to use for unemployment.

Nobody plans to fail, but many people fail to plan and this is the result.

That means their customers had less to spend at Darden’s restaurants, that’s how it affected them .