Tag: baby boomers

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My mother sent an anxious email that included the above picture, which one of her elderly friends had emailed to her as a warning about coming tax increases. “Have you seen this?” my mother asked in her email. I’m glad she inquired, because it took 15 seconds to learn on factcheck.org that this misleading information…

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More than half of older Americans with the lowest socioeconomic status can expect to face an income gap if they retire when they’re planning to. That finding is from a study by the Center for Retirement Research, which supports this blog. The researchers quantified and compared the gaps in the retirement preparedness of more than…