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Most parents typically provide in their estate planning documents an outright inheritance to their children following their deaths.  Some parents may delay distribution until a child reaches a certain age.

In an effort to assist its employees with the dramatic rise in fuel costs, Shield Healthcare’s senior management team announced that it will move up the effective date of its annual wage increase for hourly employees by six months.  These employees would normally receive an increase on January 1, 2009.  This change means that hourly employees will see additional money on their paychecks starting July 1, 2008.

Accidents in the workplace result in higher workers’ compensation and insurance costs, lost workdays, and lower employee morale.  Thus, it makes good sense for employers to provide safety education for their employees to reduce the likelihood of injuries.

Canyon High School has received the William S. Hart Union High School District’s Valuing Diversity Award for the 2007-08 school year. The annual award is given to the school with the most active program aimed at appreciating the school’s diverse student body, according to Greg Lee, diversity coordinator for the district.  The award was presented at a recent meeting of the Hart District’s Administrative Council, which includes district office administrators as well as principals from across the district. Lee made the presentation to Canyon Principal Bob Messina.

Construction Site and Work Related Accidents

California labor laws state that if you are injured during the course and scope of your employment, your only remedy is to receive workers’ compensation benefits.  However, there are exceptions to this rule.

“What’s the right way…?”  “How do I have to handle…?”  “Do I have to…?”  Here at NewMarket Careers, I’m so often asked about the “proper” way to manage the ins and outs of job search.  People wonder when to send a thank you letter, or how aggressive to be in following up after an interview.  My answer?  Have good manners and be gracious, but do what it takes!

Because your retirement planning is so important to your future well being, you should ask questions about the retirement plans available to you and how they work, as well as how best to use your retirement dollars.  Below are answers to several commonly asked questions about 401(k) plans.

Year after year of news about increasing levels of enforcement at the IRS, government statistics show tax revenue is up — evidence for the new commissioner that tax enforcement is working

Here’s some bad news for taxpayers who thought the IRS’s increasingly aggressive enforcement tactics would end in the near future: Those tactics won’t end any time soon.

Wells Fargo Home Mortgage can finance your improvements or repairs when purchasing your home.  The Purchase & RenovateSM loan could be a great financing solution when purchasing a fixer-upper or as-is home.  Qualified customers can leverage tomorrow’s property values to advance today’s improvement visions.  Working together, we can help more customers enjoy the personal and financial rewards of upgrading and renovating a home.  You can have more money to work with while upgrading.  The amount you can qualify for is based on the after improved value of your home.  There will be less strain on your budget.  Your renovation is paid for gradually over the entire term of your mortgage. 

When the going gets tough, the tough keep marketing.   Why?  Successful business owners understand that marketing is an on-going investment, not an expense, which enables their companies to thrive even during lean times.

In 2001, Santa Clarita Valley voters passed Measure V, a local bond issue, which provided $158 million for construction of new schools and modernization of existing facilities in the Hart School District.  The district has also tapped into a number of state funding sources and made optimal use of developer mitigation fees.  The result is more than $370 million in school construction through today, including four new schools, three major modernization projects and some work at almost every district school.

Are you using interest from your CDs as income?  Do you know that there is a way to receive more income at a guaranteed rate, regardless of how long you live?  Retirees are living much longer at this time.  How our parents and grandparents faced retirement may not be relevant to our situation today.  In the last century, life expectancies have lengthened.  Today, your retirement income may need to be decades, not just a few years.  It is great to project out a few decades and paint a comfortable, financially secure retirement.  It may well be that way, but there are risks.  Among them are unanticipated health problems.  A long and debilitating illness can shatter what looked like a stable retirement nest egg faster than Humpty Dumpty had a fall and with the same results.

Most of what children learn about managing money comes from their parents, and we all hope that our offspring will grow up to be financially responsible adults.  Here are some ways you can teach your kids to save and instill a healthy dose of financial responsibility that they can carry with them to adulthood. 

Attention employers, both decision-makers and screeners and attention job seekers.  We have a strange and bad mannered habit in this country.  It doesn’t happen to people in almost any other modern society in the world.  The ungracious habit of insisting on compensation history from individuals inquiring about employment is really quite a problem in this society.  A person’s prior compensation package is a confidential business deal that that person elected to make with another organization.  While that information might be an indicator of the compensation deal that might be joined with a new organization, it should still be considered private information that could be volunteered but not demanded.

Thinking of marriage?  Prepare to bare your financial soul!  It is hard enough managing money alone. Throw in another person and the financial sparks will fly -- but these tips can help.

Early one morning, you are out for a jog.  As you approach an intersection, you notice a “no-walk” red traffic signal against you.  There are no cars approaching on the horizon so you decide to keep jogging and enter the crosswalk against a “no-walk” red traffic light.