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	<title><![CDATA[Scrooged Again: Lumps of Retirement Coal from America's Employers]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-laarman/scrooged-again-lumps-of-r_b_152822.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Winter started early this year, with snow slicing down "like needles" across much of the country. But the unkindest cut this winter is coming from big U.S. employers that have decided they just won't fund employees' 401(k) plans to save costs.</p>

<p>The <em>New York Times</em> ran this <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/your-money/401ks-and-similar-plans/21retire.html?hp">story</a> in Column One yesterday. I only wish America's preachers had picked it up for their Sunday sermons, because the mounting retirement crisis is as much about disordered morality as it is about...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Business]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-01-22T05:12:00-05:00</date_published>
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