Health Savings Accounts, or HSAs, are available to people that have a high-deductible health insurance plan. The HSA is used for medical expenses such as your deductible, co-payments, medications, prescription glasses and dental care. The cash deposited into an HSA is pre-tax money. And money withdrawn from the HSA is also tax-free if used for…
In days gone by my friends dragged me to the bars of Tokyo, Bangkok, etc. where the go-go boys, pumped and panted and performed for a posse of paunchy, pale patrons. (Repeat that three times). One “star” took one look at me and asked if I was a missionary. How does one take that? Pleased?…
Remember September 2007? That’s when the stock market was at an all-time high. Within 18-months it dropped by almost 50 percent. Just last week, after four long years, the market finally made it back to that September 2007 high point. It has been a tough time for everyone in the world, but we learned some…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Though lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students are harassed at twice the rate of other students, a few purposeful steps can help transform a school into a safer place for all students, according to a guide released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance project. Best Practices: Creating an LGBT-inclusive…
With the departure of one of the U.S. State Department’s most vocally pro-gay advocates in its history, Hillary Rodham Clinton would be pleased to learn the agency has just launched a new Web site for gay travelers at http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/lgbt/lgbt_5887.html. The site is devoted to making travel as easy and as incident free for the LGBT community….
