Let's beef up Social Security benefits instead of cutting them

The best way to improve Social Security's value is by increasing benefits to better serve the neediest workers and expanding its reach to cover workers and dependents who have been excluded.

Advocates for strengthening Social Security have come to dread the release of the annual report of the program's trustees.

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UPDATE 2-Wells Fargo buying prime brokerage firm Merlin

April 27 (Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co is buying a
prime brokerage firm in its first foray into the business of
providing trading, reporting and other services for hedge funds.

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Understanding Payday Loans Posted By: Mike Kerrich

Based on certain simple eligibility criteria, UK Pay-day loan lenders offer a quick cash advance in the range of GBP 70 to GBP 1000, usually for a period of two weeks to a month. This lending amount, with the interest fees is repayable on the next payday. The process is 100% online and quick, allowing you to receive the money in your bank account on the same day, often within fifteen minutes.
Pay day-loan lenders in the UK make it easy for the borrower as there are no credit checks or documents to be faxed. As long as it is repaid on payday, at the end of the month, the lender is happy.
Today, such loans are used by people for a number of reasons ranging from emergencies to planned expenses.Understanding Payday Loans

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Barcelona says coach Pep Guardiola is leaving

Barcelona president Sandro Rosell says coach Pep Guardiola will not continue as coach of the Spanish team after this season.

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MSI GT70, GT60 Gaming Laptops Pack Ivy Bridge Chips, Color Keyboards

The MSI gaming laptops are two of the first out to sport Intel?s new third-generation Ivy Bridge processor.

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Emmanuel Sanders & The Green Team Clean-Up The ?Burgh

Last week Pittsburgh?s CW, KDKA-TV and the Pennsylvania Resources Council teamed up with Wide-Receiver Emmanuel Sanders to shoot a REALLY cool anti-littering campaign. The campaign and commercial will start in the next couple weeks, but we wanted to share it with you now!

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World traveler Dana White in air an astounding 33 hours in four-day span

Yes, Dana White is worth millions of dollars. Yes, he gets to hang out with all sorts of cool celebrities. Yes, he has a private plane and a fancy sports car and multiple homes and, well, anything that anyone worth nine figures can buy.

But do you really want to be Dana White? Do you really want to do what it takes to be the president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship? In theory, it sounds fairly enticing, until you hear some of the details -- the gory details, in my opinion.

White said Wednesday from his home in Las Vegas that from late Friday through Tuesday, he spent a total of 50 hours in the air. After figuring the flight times, it appears the correct number is 33 hours in the air, though that doesn't account for stops or waiting time. For the mathematically challenged, 33 hours is a full day and a quarter.

White's journey started late Friday, after the live airing of "The Ultimate Fighter" in Las Vegas. After White completed his obligations on the show at about 8 p.m. Pacific, he headed to the airport for a flight to Stockholm, Sweden.

The plane left Las Vegas at 10 p.m. Pacific. About 11 hours later, he was in Stockholm to be cageside for UFC on Fuel 2. When the fight card ended, White and crew hopped a plane for a six-hour flight to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, for meetings with his partners. When the meetings were complete, it was an almost 16-hour flight from Abu Dhabi to his home in Las Vegas.

"I don't know what it is, but I don't get jet-lagged," White told Cagewriter. "I guess I'm lucky. But you know how on the Internet, a lot of people say I'm fat? I get it a lot -- 'Hey, you fat pig,' that kind of thing -- but when people meet me, they say, 'You know, you're not really as fat as you look in pictures or on TV.' But when I'm in the plane that long, I kind of get bloated, swelled up, whatever you want to call it. I can't even close my fist sometimes."

White's travels aren't done. He'll be in Las Vegas through Friday, handling his duties with "The Ultimate Fighter" yet again. After the fight, he'll hop a plane for Atlanta, so that he can attend UFC 145 at Philips Arena on Saturday.

That's a simple four-hour cross-country trip. After the news conference that will begin early Sunday morning, White will hop his plane back to Vegas for a nice little West Coast to East Coast commute in a span of about 30 hours.

He's not flying Spirit Airlines, the worst airline known to man, and he's not squeezed into a middle seat next to a 330-pound guy who smells like he last showered in the Clinton Administration, but it's air time nonetheless.

There may be some folks who find that kind of a job appealing, but don't count me among that group.

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