Franklin D. Roosevelt

• How to make the United States healthy, wealthy & wise

  By Richard Hoe, ChFC, CLU, AEP  |  October 1, 2012

  There’s at least one thing the Founding Fathers may never have considered: lobbying!

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  GOP focuses on monthly jobs report, but do voters?

  By Tom Raum  |  September 17, 2012

  Washington leans heavily on the government's monthly jobs report to evaluate our economic well-being. But in the real world, most everybody just figures things out for themselves.

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  Slideshow: The history of annuities

  By Marvin Feldman, CLU, ChFC, RFC, Maria Wood  |  May 8, 2012

  Think annuities are a new product? Think again. They’ve been around since the Roman Empire.

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  Timeline: Health Care Reform Through History

  By Connie Cass  |  March 25, 2012

  National health insurance has been a hot-button issue for American politicians since 1912.

• An overview of Social Security

  By Steve Delott  |  December 14, 2010

  Social Security is a federal program of benefits that was developed in 1935 as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal plan. One of the primary benefits provided by the Social Security system is that of retirement income.