Tag: baby boomers
There’s an informal rule in journalism: put too many numbers in an article, and readers will drop like flies. A similar phenomenon might also be at work when someone looks at a Social Security statement filled with numbers. The statement, which is intended to help workers plan for retirement, shows the size of the monthly…
Today, half of U.S. workers say they want to work past age 65 – in the 1990s, only 16 percent did. Apparently, people are getting the message that, if they want to be comfortable in retirement, they will need to work as long as possible. However, good intentions don’t pan out for more a third…
