Tag: retirement
A new study lays out all the difficulties older workers have holding onto a job so they can retire on their own terms – even when the economy is doing well. Over the past quarter of a century, more than half of the older Americans who had been employed in stable jobs have been pushed…
Thousands of baby boomers retire every day and sign up for Social Security. Yet the payroll tax that funds their benefits is being levied on a shrinking share of workers’ aggregate earnings. You might not know this but inequality and growing U.S. trade with China are among the forces that are behind this trend, Ga…
