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A recent Forbes blog post stated there are only three questions that truly matter when interviewing job candidates. And not one of them is, “Where do you see yourself in five years?”

Everyone who has diabetes faces the same challenges, potential complications and treatment options. So logically, everyone who has diabetes would benefit from disease management. However, it’s a case where science defies logic.

Billionaire boy wonder Mark Zuckerberg has truly revolutionized the interwebs, and so when Morningstar reported this week that some 50 mutual funds have shares in Facebook, standing to gain billions, I think it’s only fair to wonder: Can Zuckerberg revolutionize retirement as well?

The great swings so far in the Republican nomination race may seem like fertile ground for watercooler discussion. However, I — as well as etiquette and HR/benefits experts — strongly encourage you to resist talking politics in the office.

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%.