Tag: baby boomers

Illustration of the future

Gray, small, and distinctly female. This is what the director of MIT’s AgeLab, Joseph Coughlin, sees when he peers into the future of retirement. “The context and definition of retirement is changing,” Coughlin said earlier this month at the Retirement Research Consortium meeting, where nearly two dozen researchers also presented their Consortium-funded work on a…

Skyline of DC

Why do older workers retire before they’d planned? How has the Affordable Care Act affected retirees in particular? And what’s known about U.S. immigrants’ wealth levels and Social Security contributions? Researchers from around the country will present their findings on these and a range of other retirement topics during the 17th annual meeting of t…