Tag: life expectancy
If not, even an 80- to 90-year life needs rethinking. This post was written by Harry Margolis, a new contributor to the Squared Away Blog. In their book, The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity (published in 2016), the psychologist Lynda Gratton and economist Andrew J. Scott predict that living a century will soon become t…
Including disability benefits provides a more complete picture. The Social Security actuaries just released a study that takes a new look at the progressivity of the Social Security program – that is, the extent to which it pays relatively more generous benefits to low earners than to high earners. The usual story focuses on “money’s…
