Tag: retirement income security

Close up of a newborn baby and mother holding hands with hospital bracelets

Is there really a free lunch? Repeated copies of a proposal called RISE – Retirement Income Security for Everyone – have arrived in my email, accompanied by endorsements from some serious people.  After the third or fourth missile, I felt compelled to take a closer look.  The proposal supposedly would eliminate poverty and income inequality…

Mature man is hired to handle outreach to senior adults

The brief’s key findings are: Today’s workers face a brewing retirement crisis due to: a growing need for income driven by longer lifespans, rising health costs, and low interest rates; and reduced support from Social Security and defined benefit pension plans. Fortunately, the solutions are at hand: Policymakers should shore up Social Security with more revenue,…