Tag: retirement
Will you retire when you want to, when you have to, or when you can afford it? This is crucial, because when Americans retire is more important than it’s ever been to our financial well-being in old age. Yet the research indicates this doesn’t carry enough weight in people’s decisions. This doesn’t make any sens…
The brief’s key findings are: Due to rising life expectancies, many policy experts would encourage people to work longer. However, such changes assume all workers, regardless of socioeconomic status (SES), have experienced similar gains in life expectancy. In fact, between 1979 and 2011, the gain for men in the lowest education quartile was one third…
