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Your buyout paperwork is in, you’ve spoken to your financial planner, you’re stealing office supplies like a madman, collecting clips while you can still can do your own pulls and you’re counting down to August 12 (or August 31 or September 26). Sooner or later, the shock/thrill will wear down and ‘what next’ is going […] Prior to 1986 or so, the IRS allowed for income averaging for just about everyone. Now, unless you are a farmer or fisherman, there is no income averaging. Income averaging was a great concept. Say you’re a salesman or a lottery winnder and you have a huge payday: you could spread the taxes out over […] From the files of ‘People Who Do Stuff Better Than Us’, Erica Smith (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) has an interactive and up to date map showing newspaper buytous and layoffs across the United States of these here Americas. So far, she sees 6,000 fewer people working at newspapers. (Thanks to the wmhartnett who brought this […] General Questions (check back for updates) Q: Will the company provide any help with tuition, etc. for job re-training for those who take the buyout or are laid off? A: Per Linda Murphy, No help with tuition but we are coordinating with Workforce Alliance who have re-training programs. Note that some have called EAP […] We have all been asking questions and talking with co-workers about our options, but it all seems to be happening in dribs and drabs. We thought it might make sense for us to share information as we move through this process. In conversations with co-workers, it seems some of the questions some have asked didn’t […] |