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Social security primarily refers to a social insurance program providing social protection, or protection against socially recognized conditions, including poverty, old age, disability, unemployment and others. Social security may refer to:

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Prof Warns of Risks  on Social Network Sites

Prof Warns of Risks on Social Network Sites

Technology / Internet

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The data that can be easily extracted from people’s online social networking activities could be either a blessing or a curse, says a UT Dallas researcher.


How health care overhaul could change Medicare (AP)

How health care overhaul could change Medicare

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Businessman Stewart Grill, 75, believes there's waste in Medicare. He's just skeptical Congress can find and eliminate it without touching what he likes about his government health care plan.


House passes bill stopping Medicare premium hikes

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Millions of Medicare patients would be spared monthly premium increases next year under a bill passed by the House Thursday.


Cyber criminals targeting small businesses

Technology / Internet

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Cyber criminals are increasingly targeting small and medium-sized businesses that don't have the resources to keep updating their computer security, according to federal authorities.


Developer of system to prevent ID theft forms joint venture

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ray de Beasley's dream of seeing his identity theft prevention system come to life is one step closer to reality. He just formed a joint venture with Ayoka LLC, an Arlington, Texas, software development firm, to create a ...


For struggling single moms, 3-generation households are better than 2

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Living in a three-generation household can significantly enhance the economic well-being of children, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Southern California and the University of Massachusetts, ...


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Social security numbers can be predicted with public information, researchers find

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 3

Carnegie Mellon University researchers have shown that public information readily gleaned from governmental sources, commercial data bases, or online social networks can be used to routinely predict most — ...


Unclear what happens to personal info with Clear (AP)

Unclear what happens to personal info with Clear

Technology / Other

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

(AP) -- More than a quarter million people are wondering what will happen to their fingerprints, Social Security numbers, home addresses and other personal information now that a company that sped them through ...


Immigration makes Spanish pensions system more sustainable

Immigration makes Spanish pensions system more sustainable

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers from the University of Valladolid have constructed a demographic and economic simulation model called 'Carrión', which projects the costs of pensions, Social Security contributions and GDP ...


Fix is hard for Medicare, Social Security finances (AP)

Fix is hard for Medicare, Social Security finances

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 24, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 5

(AP) -- There is no easy fix.


Hackers breach UC Berkeley computer database

Technology / Internet

created May 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- University of California, Berkeley, officials said Friday that hackers infiltrated restricted computer databases, putting at risk health and other personal information on 160,000 students, alumni and others.


Singers tell Congress: Money (That's What I Want)

Technology / Internet

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Jack Ely, the singer whose 1963 version of "Louie Louie" still makes the rounds on oldies radio, lives with his wife in a mobile home on a horse ranch in Oregon. Ely says they share $30,000 a year from her teacher's pension ...


'Unfunded liabilities' a financial myth, expert says

Other Sciences / Economics

created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A growing chorus of complaints about the U.S. government’s “unfunded” debts may be unsettling, but no cause to become unnerved, a University of Illinois tax expert says.


Official-looking e-mails claiming to be from IRS are fraudulent

Technology / Internet

created Feb 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Schemers claiming to be Uncle Sam are filling e-mail boxes in Contra Costa County, Calif., and across the country with messages asking for people's personal information.


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 ...