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What can go wrong? Being in a couple complicates your decision-making. From an economist’s perspective, one advantage of marriage is the financial benefits. Marriage allows risk sharing between partners (e.g., one partner can work more if the other loses their job) and allows couples to take advantage of returns to scale (i.e., it’s cheaper to…
Social Security is the nation’s largest social insurance program and the backbone of the U.S. retirement income system. When Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed the program in 1934, he emphasized the insurance aspect, presenting it as a safeguard against the “hazards and vicissitudes of life.” And those hazards can start early. Many young peo…
