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Mon Mar 4 2024

 

Daniel de Visé Personal Finance Reporter

Happy Monday! It's Daniel de Visé with your Daily Money.

One cold January night before the New Hampshire primary, Donald Trump traveled to Rochester, a city of blue-collar, culturally conservative voters. 

"We will terminate every diversity, equity, and inclusion program across the entire federal government," the former president declared to a packed auditorium. 

It was more than just a popular applause line at Trump rallies. Behind the scenes, Jessica Guynn reports, a coalition of dozens of right-wing groups is preparing to make Trump's words a reality. 

What happened to pensions?

Inflation continues to ravage Americans' savings, making them nostalgic for a retirement benefit of yesteryear: the pension. 

Ninety percent of Americans saving in a company retirement plan worry it doesn't provide a reliable stream of income that can withstand the financial strains posed by inflation, which hit a 40-year high in 2022, according to a survey last fall by Greenwald Research.

Until about the 1980s, the pension, or defined benefit plan, "was a very, very successful program for people," said Phil Maffei, head of corporate retirement solutions at insurance company TIAA. "You would get a portion of your income delivered as income for life when you retired." 

What, then, happened to pensions?

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Then-President Donald Trump listens while acting Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought speaks during an executive order signing regarding federal regulations at the White House on October 9, 2019.

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People enter and depart a career fair where job seekers can meet with prospective employers during a City of Los Angeles career fair offering to fill vacancies in more than 30 classifications of jobs on November 2, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. The US Bureau of Labour Statistics will release on November 3 the October jobs report amid expectations employment remains quite healthy. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP) (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)
 

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An Applebee's-IHOP combo? Dual-brand locations may be coming to the US

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"Saturday Night Live" spoofs a meeting of TikTok creators with President Joe Biden in 2022.
 

Joe Biden is trying out TikTok. It's kind of cringe.

The Biden campaign made its debut on the video-sharing app on Feb. 11. The videos they've posted since are not helpful to potential voters.

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