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Cory Booker5 days ago3 min read

Booker and Warren: Hard-Working Americans Who Play By The Rules Deserve Retirement Security

By Senator Cory Booker and Senator Elizabeth Warren

Doctors have a sworn obligation to put the best interests of their patients’ above all other…

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Marco TorregrossaApr 29 min read

Improving Social Security for Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed

What is at Stake?

michael calderwoodMar 313 min read

Pensions in Social Democratic America

I think that the US should move in a more social democratic direction, emulating the successful Nordic welfare states. This is the third part of a series of posts that I will be writing to explain how I’d build the welfare state in an ideal social democratic…

CEPRMar 302 min read

Still Working Hard: An Update on the Share of Older Workers in Physically Demanding Jobs

A recurring theme in debates over Social Security policy is that workers should be encouraged to work later into their lives by raising the age at which they can get full benefits…

ivMar 293 min read

“Because the opinions and questions of the little citizens are associated with only wanting to dismantle government…”

Jual Sumplemen FitnesMar 273 min read

Singapore Budget 2016: More than 140,000 seniors to get Silver Support payouts in 2016

SINGAPORE — Senior citizens aged 65 and above who qualify for the Silver Support Scheme will get their first payouts in July, Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat said on Thursday (March…

Oliver HarwoodMar 266 min read

A Society of the Relegated

The United States Social Security Administration. SSA. The federal program with the mission to “deliver social security services that meet the changing needs of the public.” For nearly three months, I have familiarized myself with SSA to the point of appreciating that the mission…

Mike SkinnerMar 222 min read

When Can I Retire?

For a great many people, a looming question is, “When Can I Retire?” Like so many other questions the Baby Boomers raised about society, meaning, and lifestyle, the answer to this question looks like it will be vastly different than the answers of previous generations.

Mike SkinnerMar 222 min read

How Much Should I Save for Retirement? — Part 1

While a lot of us are preparing eagerly for retirement, most of us have been putting it off. It’s becoming pretty obvious to most of the baby boomers that the time has come to face reality. Unfortunately, a lot of us are scratching our heads…

Colette Clarke TorresMar 191 min read

Is there a name for that… that… thing that isn’t capitalism but is pretending to be because companies win?

Well, I suppose he’d say “No.”

Vicki Nemeth

Yes, it is called “privatizing” and we hear it all the time regarding our health, our prison systems, our retirement savings, our education, Social Security, our water and any and everything that will fill their corporate benefactors pockets while sending jobs overseas. And still, they don’t see the irony. And still most vote against their own…