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Employers pay people to meet sales goals, hit productivity targets, put in overtime. It works. By that logic, paying people cash incentives to lose weight or engage in other healthy behaviors also should “work”. But it doesn’t. Or at least, not in the long run.

While President Obama's State of the Union address cited corporations that were dedicated to helping train American workers, Obama interestingly never — not once — specifically called on businesses to play a part in worker training, or even suggest that it was in their interests to do so. This, in my view, was a major failing of the president’s address.

An online commentary from a Forbes contributor points out that according to research by two economists, buying LTC in many cases may not only be unnecessary but also economically inadvisable.

Researchers conclude that a nationwide penny-per-drink tax on soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages would reduce consumption of sugary drinks by 15%, leading to lower diabetes, heart disease and stroke rates.

Now that presidential candidates are pledging to repeal the law and the Supreme Court is determining the law’s future, we may be back in the market for reform ideas.

The average target-date fund with about four years until its target date fell 0.4% last year, Morningstar found, the Wall Street Journal reports. That’s compared to the S&P 500, which gained 2% and the Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index, which rose almost 8%.

Although an 11th-hour deal among lawmakers to renew the payroll tax cut prevented millions of Americans from seeing their take-home pay shrink starting Jan. 1, Congress did not renew a provision in the 2009 stimulus law that allowed employees to contribute up to $230 of pay per month in pretax commuter benefits.

Shakespeare’s Juliet famously wondered, “What’s in a name?” With a 21st century twist, one could ask: What’s in a Twitter handle?

Sheesh, as if administering the Family and Medical Leave Act isn’t complicated enough, here’s yet another legal wrinkle to consider.

With the economy still struggling, and unemployment still hovering close to 9%, the country needs every dollar it can find. Help do your part to save the economy $2 trillion: Be a better manager!