Obama Budget
Apr 14, 2013
Workers Can’t Save Enough to Retire
Mar 19, 2013 A survey found that more than half of Americans have less than $25,000 in savings and investments excluding their homes, while 28 percent doubt they will have enough money to retire comfortably -- a high in more than two decades of study.
Retirement Age
Feb 21, 2013
How a Bunch of Liberal Groups Are Trying to Kill the Filibuster and Citizens United
Jan 19, 2013 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The progressive plot to save representative democracy, China's retirement bomb, Republican junk science, and doping in sports.
Geezers
Jan 10, 2013
OECD: Governments Must Raise Retirement Age
Jun 13, 2012 A new report issued by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development has advised governments to increase the retirement age in their countries. In the face of longer life expectancies, a higher retirement age is the only way to keep pension programs solvent, it says.
Recovery Drags as Americans Dip Into Savings
Jan 18, 2012 For obvious reasons, Americans' savings accounts are shrinking during this ongoing recession, both because there's not as much money to deposit and many more reasons to make withdrawals. This has consequences for the economy's long-term recovery prospects, as does another currently popular method of payment: the credit card.
Corporate Wolf Eats Grandmother Alive
Dec 2, 2011 Ellen E. Schultz's "Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit From the Nest Eggs of American Workers" reveals how fleecing the elderly is just business as usual for corporations. If the retirement industry isn’t reined in, she concludes, we’ll be right back where we were in the 1930s.
Social Security and the Generation Gap
Nov 5, 2011 Most Americans think that the big government entitlement programs -- Social Security and Medicare -- are a good thing. But young and old part company, according to a new Pew report, over the current effectiveness of the programs and what to do about it. (more)
Retire
Oct 6, 2011
