Retired Union Construction Worker Seeking Financial Security – Do We Have Enough Income for a Comfortable Retirement?

Retired Union Construction Worker Seeking Financial Security – Do We Have Enough Income for a Comfortable Retirement?

I am a 59 year old retired union construction worker with a full pension of $80,000 per year with no COLA. I also receive Social Security Disability benefits for $3,400 per month. My wife, age 59, is an executive assistant to the director of operations at a large hospital and her income is $68,000. My … Read more

Emergency Accommodation Professionals on Strike in Lyon: Testimonials and Concerns about Lack of Homeless Shelter Spaces

Emergency Accommodation Professionals on Strike in Lyon: Testimonials and Concerns about Lack of Homeless Shelter Spaces

Thursday, December 14, emergency accommodation professionals are on strike in the metropolis of Lyon, denouncing the lack of places for the homeless. They describe an increasingly “inhumane” work environment. Testimonials. Subscriber edition, Testimonial Marie Allenou Published on December 14, 2023 · Printed on December 14, 2023 at 3:31 p.m. · 5 minutes Each marauding is a … Read more

Basa launches new instant credit card download feature on mobile app with incredible benefits

Basa launches new instant credit card download feature on mobile app with incredible benefits

Always thinking about its customers, Basa launched on December 1 a new functionality in its mobile app that will allow you to download a credit card instantly and use its benefits immediately. This function has the purpose of registering new clients 100% digitally and online, with a digital credit card according to their banking profile, … Read more

Benoît Heilbrunn, ESCP Business School – The employer brand: the employee becomes a consumer of employment! – Strategies & Management

Benoît Heilbrunn, ESCP Business School – The employer brand: the employee becomes a consumer of employment!  – Strategies & Management

The drop in the unemployment rate is good news, except perhaps for companies which see the balance of power with their future employees reversing. While it often becomes easier than before to find work by crossing the street, negotiation conditions are more favorable to employees seeking qualified employment. Hence this paradox which consists of companies … Read more

We are retired with $1.4 million in investments and 2 mortgages worth $200,000. Should we pay them back and risk increasing our Medicare premium? – CNET

We are retired with .4 million in investments and 2 mortgages worth 0,000.  Should we pay them back and risk increasing our Medicare premium?  – CNET

My wife and I are both retired. Currently we have an IRA worth over $800,000 that is intact and stocks worth $600,000. We receive pensions and Social Security, which amount to about $9,000 a month, but we have two mortgages that are not being paid off. Our primary mortgage has $42,000 left with 2.5% interest, … Read more

2023 Fuji Ultimate Image Tasting Exhibition Draws Over 10,000 Participants in Qingdao

2023 Fuji Ultimate Image Tasting Exhibition Draws Over 10,000 Participants in Qingdao

Original title: More than 10,000 people participate in the 2023 Fuji Ultimate Image Tasting Exhibition kicks off More than 10,000 people participated in the 2023 Fuji Ultimate Image Tasting Exhibition. Peninsula Net, December 9(Reporter Yu Qianqian) On December 9, the 2023 Fuji Ultimate Image Tasting Collection-Qingdao Station Tour opened grandly in Hall 7 of Qingdao … Read more

20th Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival Awards Outstanding Documentaries

20th Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival Awards Outstanding Documentaries

Source: Yangcheng Evening News•Yangcheng School Authors: Huang Zhouhui, Liang Shanyin, Chen Xiaonan Publication time: 2023-12-08 23:04 At the Closing Ceremony & Golden Kapok Award Ceremony of the 20th Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival on the evening of December 7th, the list of 2023’s outstanding documentaries was announced, with 17 works as the winners. A total … Read more

China: forced labor of Uyghurs still fuels the European clothing market

China: forced labor of Uyghurs still fuels the European clothing market

New report, new alarm bells. The Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats of the European Parliament (S&D) unveils, Wednesday December 6, a new investigation into the forced labor of Uyghurs, a Muslim people originating from western China, persecuted and oppressed by the Chinese government . The report, commissioned by Socialist MEPs at Sheffield Hallam University … Read more

My husband says we will be “homeless” if we continue renting. We are 68 and 74 years old: should we buy a house instead? – CNET

My husband says we will be “homeless” if we continue renting.  We are 68 and 74 years old: should we buy a house instead?  – CNET

My husband is 68 years old and I am 74 years old. He earns $250,000 a year. We rent a townhouse in a very upscale suburb in the Houston area, but our last rent increase was $300 a month! My husband wants to find a house for no more than $300,000 because he doesn’t want … Read more

Very ‘precise’, good for the job, but bad for health, working to earn money to pay the doctor’s bills without realizing it.

Very ‘precise’, good for the job, but bad for health, working to earn money to pay the doctor’s bills without realizing it.

Keypoint: Working like a ‘perfect’ human being doesn’t have only advantages because the more ‘perfect’ is Perfectionism. Too much can cause more harm than good. The negative effects of being Perfectionism in work besides mental health, physical health and stress. It also affects co-workers. I put pressure on myself. You may also spread this pressure … Read more