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It might be nice to reduce the large share of benefits going to high earners who retire later and live long lives. To read about our federal finances, one would think we had been overtaken by forces beyond our control: extremely expensive healthcare programs, ever-growing interest payments on our debt, and runaway Social Security benefits…
I recently toured Opus, an inspiring new senior living development in Newton, Massachusetts, and then had a conversation with its founder, Amy Schectman, on my Risking Old Age in America podcast. Amy explained to me how she had helped develop both a high-end senior living development, NewBridge on the Charles, and lower-income senior housing, Brown Family Life. Wit…