Tag: retirement income
The brief’s key findings are: Retirees have long been seen as financially fragile – that is, ill-equipped to handle a financial shock without severe hardship. Interestingly, the research suggests that the vast majority of current retirees can weather shocks such as high medical bills and widowhood. Future retirees, however, face greater risk as most peo…
Should today’s workers have to bear the full burden? Social Security is unlikely to appear on the political docket until 2021. (2018 is a congressional election year; 2019 is the lead-up to the next presidential campaign; and 2020 is a presidential election year.) But it is not too early to start thinking about how to…
