Fifty-two percent of voters believe the country is off on the wrong track, and 50 percent say the same about the economy.

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Unfortunately this popular strategy led 401(k) investors off a financial cliff during two 50 percent corrections in successive bear markets.

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What should be jumping off the page here is that based upon the above referenced survey only two percent of the companies surveyed appear to utilize a value based hiring methodology.

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It dropped off to about 4 percent of total funding after 1990, to 0 percent the last two years.

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JPMorgan plans to lay off even more, aiming to cut nearly 7 percent of its employees over the next two years.

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