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Howard Gantman didn’t exactly have a plan for retirement. Rather, he wandered into it during the early months of COVID chaos. Nevertheless, retirement is going better than he’d expected. Gantman, who read comic books and science fiction voraciously as a child, has rediscovered his passion. He joined a writing group on Zoom and is working…

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The brief’s key findings are: At the outset of the pandemic recession, many feared it would undermine workers’ employer-sponsored retirement plans. State and local employees who are not covered by Social Security would have been particularly vulnerable, as they lack the buffer this program offers. Their employer defined benefit plans would have been hurt by…