Social Assistance & Welfare

While the economy is not out of the woods yet, it certainly appears that it is stumbling in that direction.

The possibility of losing your home to foreclosure can be terrifying. The reality that scam artists are preying on the vulnerability of desperate homeowners is equally frightening.

Does the current economy make you feel like a shipwreck survivor, clinging to floating wreckage and waiting for rescue? Here are some small things I'm doing to keep my spirits up and my...

Unemployed can mean the beginning of exciting opportunities.

Although the 2009 hurricane season has been relatively quiet, small businesses and home-owners alike have faced their fair share of disasters this year - floods in the mid-west, wild fires in California, an...

Employers are buying Best Doctors services as an employee benefit to ensure their employees receive a higher quality of medical care.

For those who rely on Social Security payments to make ends meet, things could get a little tougher fairly soon. While benefits cannot drop, the amount that people actually receive can go down.

If you create a plan that contains components from both of these categories, you’re going to find yourself with stronger, more motivated employees.

Healthcare reform has overshadowed other employee benefits headlines so news about forecasts has been buried.

When Congress returns from its summer recess, the health care debate will resume in full force and fury.

Long-held assumptions about the nation's leading small business group are under question, if not assault.

Most of us tend to regard occupational safety and health programs as belonging to the realm of human resources or personnel management. And while you have experienced a corporate fire drill or received...

Don't rely on the baby boomer generation to spend their discretionary cash to help our economy recover. Long thought of as the generation of conspicuous consumption, baby boomers have become the new savers...

As health care reform rockets towards actual legislation in Washington DC, Hoover's Editors identify some of the biggest political contributors in the industry.