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...government regularly raids its so-called trust funds," Steve Forbes explains in a recent Forbes magazine column. "Imagine looting your employees' pension plan each year and treating the ill-gotten moneys as operating receipts." The trust fund only exists because the ratio of workers to retiree is high. A Social Security crisis will arise when the baby boomers retire. Then, the government will require more revenue to pay retirement benefits than it will accrue by taxing the nation's reduced work force...
...example, the College's biology department has 247 male and 242 female concentrators, according to the Registrar's Office. The ratio of men to women is 50.5 to 49.5 percent, a difference of only I percent between the genders...
...Changing demographics have created a long-term financing imbalance. Since the 1930s, the ratio of workers to retirees has been steadily decreasing. In 1960 there were 5 workers paying into the system to support each retire. But when Baby Boomers retire, that proportion will be cut by more than half. This means that the system will be taking in less money while it will need to pay more...
More importantly, the point guard tandem ofBasil and Kowal combined for an impressiveassist-to-turnover ratio of 7-to-2. Egelhoff andjunior Kelly Kinneen also looked impressive offthe bench...
...company began showing off its products at trade shows that attracted foreign importers. Like many other American exporters, however, Link had to modify its products to sell overseas. Japanese regulators, for instance, require a different moisture-to-protein ratio in imported meats than is the rule...