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Most Baby Boomers Will Work for Life
by Dave Bernard, U. S. News & World Report, October 21, 2011
Many baby boomers will continue to work after retirement. The decision to work during the traditional retirement years may be a choice or beyond our control.
Retirement at risk
by Eric Ruth, News Journal (Wilmington, DE), September 25, 2011
Most are way behind, lack skills to plan life after work
401(k) Plan Revamp Eyed By Senate Finance Committee
by Lyneka Little, ABCNews.com, September 14, 2011
With less than one-half of workers having access to a retirement plan and even fewer saving enough for their old age, Congress is looking at ways to help get more Americans on track to a secure retirement.
Social security "chained CPI" proposal threatens economic security
by Joan Kuriansky, Wider Opportunities for Women, and Paul Nathanson, National Senior Citizens Law Center, The Hill's Congress Blog, July 22, 2011
Behind closed doors in Washington, the budget negotiations continue. And no matter which deal gets made, it appears the outcome will significantly threaten the economic security of America’s middle class families and seniors.
ERISA Class-Action Suits Shape U.S. Retirement Future
by Fran Denmark, Institutional Investor, February 16, 2011
Underfunded pensions, outdated regulations and fiscal troubles threaten the nest eggs of millions of American Workers. In the absence of a national retirement policy, litigators in the courts — not lawmakers — have played an outsize role in shaping America’s retirement future.
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National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare Winter 2011 Newsletter, February 07, 2011
The magnitude of the nation’s retirement income crisis was revealed during a press conference about the Retirement Income Deficit — the gap between the pensions and retirement savings that American households have today and what they should have today to maintain their living standards in retirement.
Cutting Social Security will not fix the national debt
by Karen Friedman, Christian Science Monitor, December 28, 2010
After President Obama's debt commission, Social Security is becoming a popular target for fiscal hawks.
Social Security cuts shortsighted
by Karen Friedman, Newsday, December 02, 2010
This week, members of President Barack Obama's deficit commission recommended draconian cuts to Social Security as part of a package of proposals to reduce the federal budget deficit.
A retirement deficit that's only deepening
by Karen Friedman, Philadelphia Inquirer, November 30, 2010
Op-ed from Karen Friedman of the Pension Rights Center: Social Security reductions would accelerate a crisis.
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