 By Jim Selman | Bio
I confess to be among those who have some
difficulty getting my head around how much a trillion dollars is. I can
remember a book I read to my daughter called How Much is a Billion that
was filled with mind-boggling examples, including things like the
number of seconds that have passed since Jesus was born. The Huffington
Post has a fun video clip
showing the same kinds of illuminating examples, such as a trillion
dollars is enough to buy a Starbucks Latte every day for the next 900
million years. The only problem with these kinds of illustrations is
that I can’t get my head around 900 million years either, let alone
roughly 3 billion lattes.[ Read More]
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 By Kevin Brown | Bio
Today is ‘Family Day’, a public holiday in
the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, and
Saskatchewan. It is also celebrated in South Africa, in the Australian
Capital Territory, in the state of Arizona in the U.S., and in the
Republic of Vanuatu in the South Pacific. In Alberta where I live, ‘Family Day’ was declared to recognize the values[ Read More]
Written by eldering at Fearless Aging
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I am perplexed by the fact that companies have been laying off older
workers for years as part of various downsizing projects. I understand
the drive to cut costs. Under normal demographic conditions, laying off
older workers would even make some sense from a strictly financial
point of view, since they generally command higher salaries than
younger workers. The fact is, however, that those same companies are
moaning about shortages of qualified people and the difficulties
they’re having in recruiting really good people. They often resort to
paying more for younger workers or having to hire older workers back as
“consultants” at even higher rates of pay than they would receive had
they stayed on the payroll. Moreover, aside from this financial shell game, corporations are often
blind to their real costs in terms of what they lose when they lose
their mature workforce.[ Read More]
Written by eldering at Retirement
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