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Social Security - Ideas for Reform

May 21, 2005
Next week, Representative Robert Wexler (D-Fla) unveils his Social Security reform plan. How does it sync with other proposals like creating personal accounts, revising benefits, or increasing payroll taxes? Alicia Munnell is a Professor of Management Sciences at Boston College. She offers a glimpse of what Social Security might look like in the future.
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Breaking-Up Without Going Broke

May 21, 2005
No one wants to talk about the "D" word. But some financial planners say if you don't plan properly for the end of a marriage you could face a lifetime of financial woes. Reporter Tanya Ott, with WBHM in Birmingham, Alabama, examines the relationship between divorce and dollars.
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TV up-fronts

May 20, 2005
If you went looking for TV stars in Hollywood this week you wouldn't have found them. The Desperate Housewives and just about everybody else who is anybody in television were in New York for the annual showbiz show-and-tell known as the "up-fronts." This is the week when the networks trot out their fall lineups. But even more important -- it's their opportunity to sell advertisers on the new series they claim will be the next, well, Desperate Housewives. Aaron Barnhart covers TV for the Kansas City Star, he has the story.
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TV ads upfront

May 20, 2005
TV executives are meeting in New York this week to try to generate billions of dollars in ad sales. It's what's called the upfront market, where networks sell most of their commercial time. Problem is people are watching fewer ads these days, thanks to digital recorders like TiVo that let them just fast forward on by. From Chicago, Jonathan Menjivar reports on what the advertising industry is doing about it.
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Star Wars: the day after

May 20, 2005
There are two kinds of people: those who stood in line to see a midnight show of Star Wars, and the rest of us. Those hard core fans amounted to $16 million for the nation's box offices. Hollywood's got its hopes pinned on the film. We ask Michael Speier of Variety to hum a few bars.
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"Day in the Work life": Organ Technician

May 14, 2005
On this week's A Day in the Work Life... our weekly look at how folks trade time for money... we tune a few notes with a technician who is a paid piper.
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The Doctor Is In - But for a Price

May 14, 2005
We've all cooled our heels for an hour at the doctor's office, just to see a doctor for 10 minutes. So what about a plan that cuts down on the long waits, lets you spend more time with the doctor and offers easier access to medical care? It exists -- for a price. Ashley Milne-Tyte reports on the pros and cons of what's being called "concierge medicine."
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The Job Files: Ghost Writer

May 13, 2005
It's time for another segment of The Job Files. This week, we meet Eric Shapiro, ghost writer. Amy Scott produced this edition of the Job Files.
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Music Concert Business

May 12, 2005
The past few years have been a time of discord in the music industry. But folks in the concert business are singing a happy tune. Host Cheryl Glaser finds out why from James Surowiecki of the New Yorker magazine.
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"Day in the Work Life": Bellydancer Instructor

May 6, 2005
On this week's A Day in the Work Life...our weekly look at how folks trade time for money...we navel gaze with a belly dance instructor.
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