Generation Y investors are conservative investors and invest more like their Baby Boomer parents, despite their long-term time horizon, according to the MFS Investing Sentiment Survey.

Though confidence for the voluntary market is generally down, the majority of respondents (86 percent) still believe the industrys voluntary sales will increase over the next 12 months.

Children used to be the most impoverished because, they, of course, didnt have the income to support an independent lifestyle. Now, even workers with a monthly paycheck have to rely on food stamps.

Fixing the Rhode Island's public pension funding crisis will take a major overhaul, and everyone should expect to have to make sacrifices along the way, the speaker of the state House said.