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Talking retirement savings with Generation Z
Members of Generation Z (ages 12 to 27) are continuing to move into the workforce, and they are beginning to save for retirement. If you were born between 1997 and 2012, let's talk.
I'm all for starting to save for retirement as soon as you start to earn wages, for a very simple reason: The longer you have before retirement to ... (full story)
Tupperware lifts the lid on its financial problems with bankruptcy filing
NEW YORK (AP) — The company behind Tupperware, the plastic kitchenware that revolutionized food storage after World War II and became inextricably linked to the parties where women seeking a measure of financial independence and fun in midcentury America sold the colorful products, has filed for bankruptcy.
Tupperware Bran ... (full story)
Longshoremen at key US ports threatening to strike over automation and pay
Determined to thwart the automating of their jobs, about 45,000 dockworkers along the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts are threatening to strike on Oct. 1, a move that would shut down ports that handle about half the nation's cargo from ships.
The International Longshoremen's Union is demanding significantly higher wages and a total ba ... (full story)
Local
Column: How the Israeli settlers movement shaped modern Israel
(THE CONVERSATION) The increase in settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank over the past year has been unprecedented. Since Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack and the start of the war, there have been more than 1,000 attacks, according to a new report from the International Crisis Group.
The spike, which has raised inter ... (full story)
Column: How Israel's Netanyahu survives in his job
(THE CONVERSATION) After several tumultuous weeks in Israel, mass demonstrations increasingly depict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as directly responsible for the fate of the hostages still held by Hamas. Despite mounting internal and international pressure to negotiate a deal with Hamas for the hostages' release, Netanyahu rema ... (full story)
State
Railroads and regulators must address the dangers of long trains, report says
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — As freight trains have grown longer, the U.S. has seen an increase in the number of a type of derailment caused by the forces of railcars pushing and pulling against each other, the National Academies of Sciences said in a long-awaited report that urges regulators, Congress and the industry to reexamine thei ... (full story)
Vance touts deportation plan in Wisconsin city where tensions flared over refugee resettlement
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) — Stephanie Hirsch remembers growing up in the western Wisconsin city of Eau Claire when the community welcomed newly arriving Hmong refugees from Southeast Asia.
So Hirsch, now the Eau Claire city manager, said she was surprised at the hostility, fear and anger she saw last fall, when residents learn ... (full story)