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1) Alaska - $407 per day 2) Connecticut (Southern) - $348 per day 3) Connecticut (Connecticut Valley) - $322 per day 4) New York (Hudson Valley) - $318 per day 5) Massachusetts (Boston area) - $299 per day Source: New York Life

Note: Pam and I have several "advisors" who help us improve our programs and market our speaking and training. One of them said to us ...

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60 percent of full-time, full-year wage and salary workers ages 21-64 worked for an employer or union that sponsored a retirement plan. 53 percent of working age full-time, full-year wage and salary workers participated in a retirement plan.

Editor First, I am really impressed by the weekly online [newsletter]. Your columns are always provocative and informative, and overall the look, topics and timeliness are excellent. I have asked [our] department to work with Business Selling

64 percent of long-term care insurance claims are to claimants aged 55-65. $12.8 million is paid out to 277 claimants under age 50. 54 years old is the average age of claimants under 65. Source: Unum

As an agent out in the field during the early days of my career, I often wondered why the company I represented didn't offer more support to the people in the trenches writing the business. I thought about how much better our production would be if