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France firm on raising retirement despite protests | The Daily …

French unions holding a national strike next week over a proposed pension reform want the government to abandon plans to raise the age for retirement with full benefits, a union leader said on Wednesday.

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XE.com – Union urges France to ditch rise in full pension age

Business News . Just another WordPress weblog … This month has seen the publication of a report from the Pensions Policy Institute, recommending that the age for retirement be raised to 72, in order to allow the government to maintain the amount spent on pensions at the level they were in 1990. This is worrying, since it may mean that a large part of the population will have to give up the idea of ever getting a pension and might have to work till they drop. …

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Seeking Employment Opportunities For Older Workers, As The …

Many continue to buy into the idea that the government should control the individual , his assets, actions, speech and thought. It has become a time that was conceived as fiction by the likes of George Orwell in his novel “1984,” Ray …

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ROFASix: Is the Government Coming For Your IRA and 401k next?

Money should not be channeled to those who cannot use it in the most effective way; needless to say they are state-run or private businesses . So the government’s development strategies should entail allocating privileged resources to …

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Economist discusses Vietnam's development strategies | SaigonMoney …

The Tigers are history and Sri Lanka’s ethnic minority remains under the government’s thumb. Think about it – who wants to portray the boat people as a security threat?

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Tamils of a different stripe