Tag: inequality
Retirement inequality is a thread running through several articles that have appeared here this year. One blog that was particularly popular with our readers distinguishes retirees who have enough wealth to maintain the same spending levels throughout retirement from those who will, over time, have to cut back and reduce their standard of living. T…
In the pandemic’s early days, the unraveling of economic life was breathtaking. Some 3.3 million Americans filed for jobless benefits in the second week of March 2020. A record 6.6 million joined them the following week. By April, government checks were starting to land in workers’ bank accounts, bringing the urgent relief Congress intended. T…
