You can fill out forms available on the government’s TreasuryDirect site in order to claim a missing bond or redeem a bond that belonged to a person who’s now deceased.
What the Federal Reserve does with interest rates matters, because those rates are often what lenders use as a baseline to decide how much they will charge to lend to the rest of us — individuals and businesses.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects the most growth in health care and technology occupations over the next 10 years. But the projections aren't iron-clad.