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Market optimism may be masking deep retirement risks. Planning for retirement has always been hard, but when government policy is unpredictable, it makes it even more challenging. For example, changes to Social Security and Medicare can put basic security at risk; changes to the tax system can scramble a household’s finances; and ballooning government debt…

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Older workers now face two major impediments: looming Social Security cuts and rapidly evolving workplace priorities. I have been thinking about how artificial intelligence technology affects my college-aged students, both intellectually and economically. But even though I research retirement, I hadn’t focused on how AI might impact people later in their careers.  Recently, a Wa…

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