May 10 Column: What Medicare can teach the GOP about this basic rule of insurance By Philip Moeller The very nature of insurance itself seems to have escaped many critics of Obamacare. Continue reading
May 08 Are robots coming for your blue-collar jobs? By Making Sen$e Editor On average, the arrival of one new industrial robot in a local labor market coincides with an employment drop of 5.6 workers. Continue reading
May 08 Column: Why you need to get financially naked with your partner By Erin Lowry For other generations “the number” may refer to bedfellows, but millennials have a new type of number to be concerned with: the debt number. Continue reading
May 05 Inside Janesville, the Democratic town Paul Ryan calls home By Diane Lincoln Estes What happens to a factory town after the factory is gone? Paul Ryan's hometown of Janesville is a former manufacturing town that has struggled since the Great Recession. Continue reading
May 05 5 takeaways from April’s jobs report By Kristen Doerer The U.S. economy added 211,000 jobs in April, putting us on track to close the jobs gap within the year. Here are some other numbers that matter. Continue reading
May 04 Watch 9:14 It’s a slow, painful recovery for this former manufacturing town By PBS News Hour Once a proud industrial town, Janesville, Wisconsin, was knocked for a loop in 2008 when General Motors idled its assembly plant, the area's long-time largest employer. Economics correspondent Paul Solman talks to Amy Goldstein, author of "Janesville: An American Story,"… Continue watching
May 04 In this struggling Wisconsin town, families come to terms with needing help By Amy Goldstein In Janesville, Wisconsin, the nation’s oldest operating General Motors assembly plant shut down in the midst of the Great Recession, two days before Christmas of 2008. As many as 9,000 people lost their jobs, and families tumbled out of the… Continue reading
May 04 Can employers make you rely on Medicare and drop their insurance? By Philip Moeller Is it legal for employers to pressure their employees to drop workplace health insurance? Phil Moeller answers that question and more in his weekly column, Ask Phil. Continue reading
May 03 Many seniors who qualify for home-based care under Medicare aren’t receiving it. Why? By Philip Moeller A worrisome and growing number of Medicare enrollees have said that they have been denied home-based care even though they are qualified to receive it and it is covered by Medicare. Continue reading
May 02 Column: Want to raise your credit score? Follow these two steps By Erin Lowry A strong credit history serves as an insurance policy on your financial life. Here's how you can build good credit. Continue reading