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High prices persist – making life less affordable – and further increases are on the horizon This year’s elections confirmed the hollowness of arguing that low inflation means that Americans are doing fine. Consumers don’t care about inflation; they care about high prices, and they see high prices when they go to the grocery store,…
In a recent podcast, I talk with Laura D. Quinby of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College (CRR) and Luc Schuster of Boston Indicators about their study Wealth Gaps in the Golden Years: Economic Insecurity for Older Adults in a High-Cost State. They examined economic insecurity for older adults in Massachusetts through both quantitative analysis carried out by…
