Tag: retirement benefits
It might be nice to reduce the large share of benefits going to high earners who retire later and live long lives. To read about our federal finances, one would think we had been overtaken by forces beyond our control: extremely expensive healthcare programs, ever-growing interest payments on our debt, and runaway Social Security benefits…
A closer look at the Boeing negotiations only makes the question more puzzling. Boeing workers recently accepted the company’s third offer. The agreement does not include reopening the Boeing defined benefit pension plan, which was cited as the major reason that the union rejected the second offer. Even though the strike is over, I find…
