News tagged with financial stability


Sick? Stay home!

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The deadline is looming, rumors of layoffs are swarming and you get the flu. Think the heroic thing to do is to go in and “work through the pain?” Wrong! According to Dr. Mary Capelli-Schellpfeffer, medical ...


Living longer on less: The new economic (in)security of seniors in Massachusetts

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The New Economic (In)Security of Seniors, issued today by the Institute on Assets and Social Policy (IASP) at Brandeis University finds that Massachusetts seniors face widespread financial insecurity. Almost 7 in 10 senior ...





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Financial security, more than money alone, may be key to happiness, study says

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

A study of the mental state of the modern American woman by a Princeton University psychologist has found a powerful link between concerns over financial security and satisfaction with one's life.


76 percent of American middle-class households not financially secure

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 24, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (17) | comments 1

As the economy continues to reel, a new report finds that 4 million American households lost economic security between 2000 and 2006, and that a majority of America's middle class households are either borderline or at high ...


Gratitude and financial virtue

Gratitude and financial virtue

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Study by Northeastern psychologist finds feelings of gratitude prompt people to share their financial resources.


Older Americans: How they are faring in the recession

Other Sciences / Economics

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Older Americans have weathered the financial crisis relatively well, although many now expect to work longer than they did just a year ago, according to a University of Michigan study released on Capitol ...


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Semiconductor giant Infineon upgrades outlook

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

German semi-conductor maker Infineon on Thursday upgraded its turnover and profits forecast over the next 12 months because of higher demand from the auto industry and cost cuts.


Older workers spend less on necessities and health care

Older workers spend less on necessities and health care

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

More older Americans are choosing to continue to work or are returning to the labor force. The number of workers age 65 and older is predicted to increase by more than 80 percent by 2016. In an ongoing study, ...


2 out of 3 middle class American families on shaky financial ground, according to new report

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 28, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Fewer than one in three middle-class families in America is financially secure, and the remaining majority are either borderline or at high risk of falling out of the middle class altogether, according to a new study published ...


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Will China's Planned Solar Field Lower the Cost of Alternative Energy?

Technology / Energy

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (24) | comments 31

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the biggest complaints that some have about solar power (and other forms of alternative energy) is that it is so much more expensive than the fossil fuels that are more commonly used ...


Italians mothers wait longer for children

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 30, 2007 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Italian woman wait longer to have children than women in any other developed country, a report from the Bocconi University social research center said.


American seniors living longer on less, study

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Older Americans have experienced huge, negative financial shifts that now make it more difficult to enter retirement with sustainable economic security, a new study finds. Seventy-eight percent of all senior households are ...



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