Business Stories from August 21, 2011 (Change date)
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Selling burns 401(k) savers who dump stocks, expert saysAug 22, 2011 9:36 am - U.S. investors who sold equities in their retirement accounts during market volatility in 2008 and 2009 did worse than those who stayed in stocks, Fidelity Investments s...
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Desire for control sends consumers to food co-opsAug 22, 2011 11:49 am - Cooperative grocery stores have been on a boom-then-bust cycle since they first emerged after the Great Depression. And the cycle at the moment is back to boom. As more ...
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Clinton fundraisers fill Obama coffersAug 22, 2011 9:36 am - WASHINGTON — Almost one in every 10 Barack Obama fundraisers for the 2012 presidential campaign worked four years ago generating cash for former Democratic rival Hillary...
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Boomers to spend billions fighting agingAug 22, 2011 11:49 am - Baby boomers heading into what used to be called retirement age are providing a 70 million-member strong market for legions of companies, entrepreneurs and cosmetic surg...
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GOP may OK tax increase that Obama hopes to blockAug 21, 2011 8:42 am - WASHINGTON — News flash: Congressional Republicans want to raise your taxes. Impossible, right? GOP lawmakers are so virulently anti-tax, surely they will fight to preve...
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Court: Ill. plant didn’t violate deal by closingAug 21, 2011 9:24 am - An automotive parts manufacturer did not violate a collective bargaining agreement by closing its plant in central Illinois and moving production to its non-unionized fa...
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Social Security disability on verge of insolvencyAug 21, 2011 8:42 am - WASHINGTON — Laid-off workers and aging baby boomers are flooding Social Security’s disability program with benefit claims, pushing the financially strapped system towar...
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New data spill shows risk of online health recordsAug 21, 2011 8:42 am - SAN FRANCISCO — Until recently, medical files belonging to nearly 300,000 Californians sat unsecured on the Internet for the entire world to see. There were insurance fo...
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Stock market begins to feed economic fearAug 21, 2011 8:42 am - NEW YORK — The stock market is starting to feed economic fear, not just reflect it. Stocks have fallen four weeks in a row. Some on Wall Street worry that the resulting...
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Grant will help U-46 draw more girls to science, mathAug 22, 2011 1:01 pm - Elgin Area School District U-46 will use a national grant to pilot a program this fall to get more students — particularly girls — interested in science, technology, eng...
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