Retirement Trends

U.S. banks earned less in the July-September quarter than they did a year earlier, marking their first year-over-year profit decline since the spring of 2009 when the country was still mired in the Great Recession.

The corporation's deficit has grown to $36 billion the result of low interest rates, an up-and-down stock market and many corporation bankruptcy filings.

The Social Security Administration has found that the number of disabled beneficiaries started to increase steadily in 1990.

Social Security has been called many things, but at its core, its a welfare system.

If federal employees and retirees want to invest their retirement dollars in social responsible companies, a new bill, if passed, will give them that option.

The state of Washington needs to form a public-private partnership that would then set up a defined benefit retirement plan, says the executive director of NCPERS during testimony.