Stephanie Lampkin is the CEO of Blendoor, a merit-based recruiting platform that takes names and photos out of the early ...

FORTUNE -- As Ronald Reagan was so fond of saying: "There you go again." That's right, there Fortune goes again with another 100 great things about America. This is Fortune's third annual list ...

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 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 ...

Ah, the question everyone loves to debate. It's true that Social Security will soon start paying out more benefits than it receives in contributions, as the bulk of the baby-boom generation phases ...

Any money you contribute from your paycheck is always 100% yours. But company matching funds usually vest over time - typically either 25% or 33% a year, or all at once after three or four years.

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Obama administration outlines plans for more Arctic oil drilling, but says new leases won't be granted until 2016 to allow more time for studies. More ...

Some of the tech industry's biggest and most influential employers in Silicon Valley fight hard to keep private details about the diversity of their workforce. More ...

Notes: *UK Caribbean territories refers to the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Montserrat and Turks and Caicos. **Data for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) does not include service export ...

Think you're paid what you're worth? Explore how your salary compares to the average earnings in your country, then see where your wage sits globally. Find out how your wage compares to the ...

Education data was collected by the U.S. Census and covers public school children prekindergarten through twelfth grade. Prison data from the Vera Institute was collected in each state using a ...