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Rear view of an elderly couple walking along a sidewalk

Supplemental Transition Accounts for Retirement (STARTs) would raise retirement incomes.  Gary Koenig of AARP, Jason Fichtner of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and Bill Gale of the Brookings Institution have proposed Supplemental Transition Accounts for Retirement (STARTs) to raise the age at which Social Security benefits are first paid, thereby   reducing the tota…