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. . . Len Nichols of the Washington-based New America Foundation, a public policy institute, said at a panel discussion on health care in Washington last week: "If we could just agree to cover everyone, we could talk about how." . . .

Nichols said the quickest way to get Congress to create a Medicare-like plan for all is to suggest that big employers don't have to offer health insurance. In other words, workers wouldn't stand for… more

My Dad has never been much of one for giving advice, but one piece he offered many years ago stuck: Pay yourself first...

Pay yourself first is a short way of saying set some money aside every paycheck, before you start paying everyone else...

It is along those lines that Reid Cramer, a policy analyst and research director of the Asset Building Program at the nonpartisan New America Foundation, has been trying to get official Washington to listen to a new… more

WASHINGTON -- Talks about Social Security will heat up in January when Democrats take majority control of Congress. But the discussion will be different from how it was in 2005, when President George W. Bush pushed for personal retirement savings accounts.

Momentum for that idea, which would have funded voluntary retirement savings accounts for younger workers by diverting a portion of current payroll taxes, died as Republicans in Congress failed to take up Bush's initiative amid opposition from a variety of… more

I just paid off the last of my student loans. Today, I start saving for my children's college education, and I'm already behind. Like millions of Americans, by the time I retire, I will have spent over 75% of my life either paying or saving for college. It shouldn't be this hard.

The College Board recently reported that tuition and fees at public four-year colleges are up more than 37% in non-inflation-adjusted terms just since this year's senior class… more