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Anne Nolan — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:40:13 -0400

About my promise to blog about the Amherst conference - it was amazing, but I don't have much time to write tonight - early flight home in the morning. Look for a post about it later this weekend. Thanks.

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Anne Nolan — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:37:41 -0400

Hey, Gretchen and Roger, thanks for reading my blog! I'm new at this and appreciate the comments. Even though I don't agree with Roger's. IMHO, the meme that we're "never going to see the money" we pay in SS taxes is just a propaganda campaign from the people who wanted to gull us into investing that money in the stock market a couple of years back. Are we glad we didn't listen to them?

House Democrats considering doing WHAT to 401(k)s?

Anne Nolan — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:27:28 -0400

This from Workforce Management’s e-newslettter came through our inbox this week and the first reaction we had was “What? Why?” Take a look:

House Democrats Contemplate Abolishing 401(k) Tax Breaks

Obama Campaign Offers Substance on Work-Life Issues

Anne Nolan — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:27:22 -0400

It’s pledge week at Minnesota Public Radio, a time when often they’ll re-run snippets of recent great programming in between shameless begging for money. This morning Kerri Miller’s intellectually chewy daily talkfest Midmorning featured live guests in the first hour, but the second hour featured a kind of virtual sparring between media heavyweights on the topic of advocacy journalism.

Fast Talk Response -

Anne Nolan — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:06:18 -0400

No. It treats the symptom, not the cause. The cause was the assumption that housing values would never go down. As long as most young Americans remain too strapped to afford a house, that problem's not getting fixed. If I had $700 B to play with, I'd use it to forgive the nation's student loans. If the younger generation had that boost to their cash flow, housing prices would start rising again, and then maybe not so much of the bad paper would be under water.

Cheering as my Roth IRA sags

Anne Nolan — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:12:48 -0400

World at Work has a nice definition of work-life that I really like. They define it broadly and include "community involvement" in their definition.

So although it may be a bit of a stretch, I do think this fits under the "community involvement" aspect of work-life.

The day I first posted this was the day that the first version of the Wall Street bailout plan went down to defeat in Congress.

Fast Talk Response -

Anne Nolan — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:44:18 -0400

Besides, any bill that unites Representatives Michele Bachmann, Steve King, Tim Walz, and Dennis Kucinich in opposition has got to be a really bad idea.

Fast Talk Response -

Anne Nolan — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:34:24 -0400

I couldn't be more delighted that the ordinary Joes and Janes of this country finally stood up and roared, and if it cost me a little bit of retirement income in the long run, it was worth every dime to see this day. A fine day for democracy. What the folks in Washington and New York don't understand is that most Main Street folks don't have much, if anything, in the stock market and so they don't care if it drops like a stone. Tight credit and a bleak job market? How would that be different from what they're experiencing already?