When I hear talk of raising the retirement age or raising the Medicare eligibility age, I think that all of us who do this for a living should be doing what the Pope has suggested ...
And the amount suggests more security to many people than it really is.
That is your Social Security check for many people.
They have a higher percentage of defined benefit, DB, plans.
The annuitized income of Social Security remains a safeguard of retirement security for working-class families.
Let us talk about that. The lowest-income worker is--I mean, some significant number of them have a negative net worth.
the defined contribution plans, really, right now on the data that is out there, just do not show up as a significant force.
So the baby boomers born in the 1940s are better off, taking into account age, than baby boomers born in 1958 or 1959?
We know that there is a growing retirement crisis in the United States.
One reason I want to raise the minimum wage is because I do not really buy that every one of those fast food workers is going to graduate to...
For too many, it is the private retirement system that is not working.