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The Most Underrated Factor in Retirement Income Sustainability
(By - J.R. Robinson, via www.nasdaq.com) As a practical matter, the factors that determine how long our savings will last after we retire fall into two categories: those we can control and those we cannot. Major factors that are largely…
Debate Disappoints: “Where’s the Beef?”
(Source - www.journalnow.com) Watching the Aug. 6 Republican political debates, I was once again reminded how often political rhetoric is the norm while concrete proposals to solve our problems get short shrift. I thought of the famous “Where’s the Beef”…
Workers counting on Social Security despite funding issues
(By John Grimaldi, www.imperialvalleynews.com) Long-range funding doubts notwithstanding, recent polling shows that more workers than ever before are counting on Social Security as a “major source” of their retirement income, reports Gallup. The pollsters found that more than a third…
As Social Security turns 80, what does its future hold?
(By - Emily Gersema, news.usc.edu) On this day 80 years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Social Security Act, creating a public retirement system for millions of Americans. Since then, Social Security has become a primary source…
Debunking 8 Social Security Myths on Its 80th Birthday
(Source - Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget) August 14 marks the 80th birthday of the Social Security program, which was established in the Social Security Act of 1935. Over the past 80 years, Social Security has provided important cash…
Clinton is open to raising Social Security taxes on six-figure earners
(By - Max Ehrenfreund and Anne Gearan, www.washingtonpost.com) What to do about Social Security is one of the most important questions that Hillary Rodham Clinton has yet to answer as she lays out her economic agenda for primary voters. Democrats…
The biggest Social Security mistake women make
(By - Kelley Holland, www.cnbc.com) Is 62 too young to claim for women to claim Social Security? That is the age at which both women and men are allowed to claim, and sure enough, 40.8 percent of the women who…
Baby Boomers: Too Optimistic About Retirement?
(By - Anne Fisher, Fortune) If you’re a Baby Boomer within sight of age 65, you’re probably thinking about your next move—and it may well be a career change instead of a traditional kick-back-and-relax retirement. Among 1,005 Boomers who haven’t…
Things to know about Social Security’s disability crisis
(By - STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, bigstory.ap.org) The 11 million Americans who receive Social Security disability face steep benefit cuts next year — right in the middle of a presidential election — unless Congress acts. Social Security’s trustees say the disability trust…
Boomers, Retirement, and the Future of Social Security – Expert Answers the Big Questions
(Source - www.modernreaders.com) At this point, a lot of the kids who grew up on the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and Woodstock are now heading towards retirement, and a lot of Baby Boomers have questions aplenty about what could be…