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You bet your life insurance Original

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By Vito Emanuel, Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi Verified, Marianne McCune, Willa Rubin Verified
| NPR Verified
How the AIDS crisis helped spark a billion dollar secondary market for life insurance : Planet Money Some of the biggest firms on Wall Street are, at this very moment, waiting for thousands of strangers to die to reap their returns. Because there’s a market for life insurance policies. And it’s legal. You don’t have to actually die to get some of your life insurance money. Thanks to a secondary market for life insurance policies, you might be able to claw back money from beyond the grave.
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Older workers aren’t retiring. Should they be forced to?

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By Sarah Gonzalez Verified, Eric Mennel, Willa Rubin Verified
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Why older workers aren’t retiring : Planet Money When workers past retirement age can’t afford to retire — that’s one thing. When they can, and just don’t want to — that’s trickier. It used to be legal to force people to retire when they hit a certain age. The trend used to be earlier and earlier retirement. Now it’s later and later retirement. And younger workers say it’s impacting their career advancement and their ability to save for their own retirement.
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Can the Trump administration make college cheaper? Original

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By Kenny Malone Verified, Cory Turner Verified, Willa Rubin Verified, Marianne McCune
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Does tuition go up when students can take on more debt? : Planet Money Will limiting how much students can borrow force schools to lower their prices? The Department of Education thinks so. It has a new plan to bring down tuition costs. Starting today, July 1st, it’s going to cap how much it’s willing to loan to graduate students. You read that right. To reduce the burden of school…the plan is to give students less money to pay for school.
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