Not very. The percentage of workers in the private sector whose only retirement account is a defined benefit pension plan is now 4%, down from 60% in the early 1980s. About 14% of companies offer ...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Not all community colleges are created equal. Figuring out which school will give you the best chance of transferring to a four-year college or university can be difficult ...

Absolutely. That's because different investment mixes are riskier than others, and your tolerance for risk decreases as you age. Stocks - which are shares of ownership in a corporation - provide ...

7:05am: The David Lynch Foundation has been getting an increasing number of calls from Wall Street firms to come and offer its $1,000 intensive course on Transcendental Meditation to employees. More ...

Not until you reach retirement age. Typically that's 65, though many pension plans allow you to start collecting early retirement benefits as early as age 55. If you decide to start receiving ...

A variable annuity is a tax-deferred retirement vehicle that allows you to choose from a selection of investments, and then pays you a level of income in retirement that is determined by the ...

A new Tax Policy Center study looks at the average annual property tax burdens in more than 3,000 counties across the country.

A community grapples with its new reality: A natural gas drilling boom is bringing big money and big stress to this once laid-back Pennsylvania town. More ...

Wal-Mart knocks Exxon Mobil out of the top slot to rule the Fortune 500 again. See the full list of America's largest corporations, including detailed company profiles and contact information. More ...

Due to erroneous job, cost-of-living, and test score data for a small number of places, two cities were left off this year's top 100 and two were mistakenly included. Other cities moved up or down ...

A pension is a retirement account that an employer maintains to give you a fixed payout when you retire. It's a kind of defined benefit plan. Your payout typically depends on how long you worked ...

Less education, on top of physical or mental impairments, makes it hard to find work or maintain a full-time job… Which in turn, makes it difficult to earn enough to get by… The poverty rate ...