Retirement Trends

The Nasdaq Composite is up 35 percent this year.

Statistics paint a picture of millions of senior citizens forced to live in poverty after their working years end. Congressional gridlock, however, prevents any action that would allow Social Security benefits to remain at promised levels.

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A former Detroit university professor is pledging $5 million and hoping to spark a wildfire of private financial support to protect valuable art from being sold to pay creditors in the city's bankruptcy.

Labor Secretary Thomas Perez wants to revisit DOL redraft "from the ground up," according to Mercer Bullard, founder of Fund Democracy.

Stocks jumped in early trading after the Labor Department said employers added 203,000 jobs last month, greater than the 180,000 economists had forecast.