Tag: full retirement age
After more than four decades of working – as a rookie reporter in Chicago, then Dallas and Boston, and finally 13-plus years writing this blog at Boston College – I have decided to dramatically reduce my hours of work. I need more time for myself when I’m not taking care of my 88-year-old mother, who…
“Unless we act now,” President Jimmy Carter warned in 1977, Social Security’s retirement trust fund will run out of money in 1983. That statement triggered several reforms that put the program on a firmer footing. Social Security is once again nearing a critical point. The day of reckoning is expected to come in 2033 if…
