In a Post-COVID world, are older people working? Sometimes, on a lazy summer afternoon, I like to go into the Current Population Survey – the monthly survey that yields the government’s estimate of the unemployment rate – and just tabulate away. What can I say, my social life just isn’t what it used to b…
We, too, should restore balance to our system, but inequality precludes an across-the-board increase. Denmark recently raised its retirement age to 70 for Danes born in 1971 or later. Should we do the same thing? The answer is two-fold. On the one hand, Congress should enact legislation to restore balance to our Social Security system,…