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Social Security Contribution and Rate Schedule

(percent of covered earnings)Year Retirement survivors,and disability insurance Hospital insurance (%)TotalEmployers and Employees 1978 4.95% 1.10% 6.05%1979–80 5.08 1.05 6.131981 5.35 1.30 6…

Largest U.S. Bankruptcies, 1980–Present

Filing away some of America's biggest IOUs Bankruptcy is the legal process of getting out of insolvency. Insolvency is when a person or business is incapable of paying back its debts. These debts…

Health

Find facts on first aid, nutrition, fitness, disease, mortality, health insurance, drugs, alcohol, caffeine, cigarette consumption, and more. Diseases First Aid Fitness & Nutrition…

The Devil's Dictionary: Insurrection

by Ambrose Bierce INSURANCEINTENTIONINSURRECTION -n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.

The Devil's Dictionary: Curse

by Ambrose Bierce CURIOSITYCYNICCURSE -v.t. Energetically to belabor with a verbal slap-stick. This is an operation which in literature, particularly in the drama, is commonly fatal to the…

How to Prepare for a Hurricane

We live in a day and age when technology becomes more and more sophisticated on a daily basis. People can do almost anything and everything with their phone; online banking, make hotel reservations,…