This Is How Big Social Security Checks Might Grow in 2023
Another large bump in benefits may be on the way.
Another large bump in benefits may be on the way.
Recently, I wrote about networking strategies that can help advance your career, and that got me to wondering what a “typical” career looks like these days. How have careers been affected by the Great Recession? Are people able to stay in a job and retire if they love it, or is the job market more chaotic than that? And what does it say about you either way? For instance, are there certain features of someone’s resume that might identify them as a baby boomer, Gen X, or millennial? Could that even pose an advantage or disadvantage for them?
People often fall prey to the “rosy retrospection” bias or fallacy, where they have a tendency to remember the past as being better than it actually was. So while your parents’ or grandparents’ generation would likely have said differently at the time, if you ask folks today about those past decades, they would tell you that it was a stable time when it wasn’t too hard to stay with one employer for all or the majority of their careers and retire with a fat pension.
Whether or not that was actually people’s lived experience, it is generally acknowledged that the retirement outlook for 20-somethings today is quite different. It is expected now that individuals will hold numerous jobs throughout their lifetimes. In fact, people may have not only different jobs, but different careers over the course of their working years.
Inflation is eroding the purchasing power of your money. But you don’t have to just sit back and take it.
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Itâs a common trope: going to college is expensive. Thereâs tuition, the overpriced cafeteria plan, and the cramped dorm room that costs more than your parentâs mortgage. College costs have outpaced inflation and wages for years, and the costs can be seen everywhere. Especially in textbook prices. According to data from the Bureau of Labor
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Nonbank mortgage employment in 2022 was even lower than initial estimates suggested, the Bureau of Labor Statistics found after its annual adjustment for company filings. The revised payroll count shows the figures for the number of people on mortgage banker and broker payrolls were overestimated by 10,000 positions or more each month, with steeper declines … [Read more…]
It seems inflation is, indeed, being tamed. But itâs still uncertain whether the U.S. is in the clear or if a potential downturn is ahead.
These places pay women in construction the most.
New data shows job openings are high and jobless claims are low, with a 3.4% unemployment rate, which isn’t ideal for mortgage rates.
The labor market started 2023 with a bang, which could spell trouble for the housing market as the Fed tries to control inflation this year.