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By Paul Solman Retired economics professor Mary Huff Stevenson leads a Zumba Gold ® class at the Brookline Community Foundation Senior Center outside Boston. Photos by Amara Cohen. Professor Emerita of Economics (University of...
Ray Souza at his dairy farm in Turlock, Calif. He's seen neighboring dairy farms go out of business because they can't afford production costs. Photo courtesy of the Center for Investigative Reporting. California dairy farmers are pumping out milk...
More people are working well past traditional retirement age. Is retirement as we know it a thing of the past? How long are we likely to work?View full content
The Supreme Court could make landmark rulings on three major issues this month, weighing affirmative action in higher education, the Voting Rights Act section 5, and California's Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which both...
An Iranian Revolutionary Guard speedboat cruises past an oil tanker off the port of Bandar Abbas, southern Iran, on July 2, 2012. Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images. Introduction With concern mounting over Iran's nuclear ambitions, some...
A U.S. Border Patrol agent keeps watch near the San Ysidro port of entry near San Diego, California. Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images A day after 82 members of the Senate joined together to vote in favor of moving forward with a...