When Beth Pinsker’s mother became too ill to manage her own finances, she and her brother stepped in to pay bills and monitor accounts on her behalf. As a financial journalist and certified financial planner (CFP), Pinsker figured she was well-prepared for the task. It turned out to be much more complicated than she anticipated....

The health care sector is doing the heavy lifting when it comes to jobs growth, and recent federal labor data shows that without it, the labor market would be in serious trouble. In fact, if you take health care and social assistance out of the picture for January data, overall growth would be barely noticeable,...

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The future is a weird place. Those of us of a certain age seem to have trouble understanding or latching onto the predictions of what we are t…