Tag: Housing
Retirement, as portrayed in TV commercials, is the time to indulge a passion, whether tennis, enjoying more time with a spouse, frequent socializing, or civic engagement. Boston University sociologist Deborah Carr isn’t buying this idealized picture of aging. “This gilded existence is not within the grasp of all older adults,” she argues in “Golden Years?…
If the difference in men and women’s pay is a gap, then the wealth difference can only be described as a chasm. Women earn 80 cents for each dollar a man earns. But a woman has 32 cents of net worth to a man’s dollar. One byproduct of the #MeToo movement is the fresh light…
