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Seven years ago this month, this personal finance and retirement blog debuted. How things have changed. For one thing, back in 2011, a lot more people were reading blogs and newspapers on their clunky desktop computers. In recognition of the now-ubiquitous smart phone – more accurately, a computer that happens to have a phone –…
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Just as the wealth and income gap between the well-to-do and working people is growing, so, too is retirement inequality. Researchers increasingly want to know what’s behind this phenomenon. They’ve uncovered reasons ranging from low-income workers’ greater difficulty saving to the well-to-do’s longer life spans – which means they’ll get more out of their Socia…