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Work longer, retire richer, research reveals
In my forties and fifties, my friends and I assumed we’d all retire at 65. Didn’t everybody? Ten, still going full tilt in my early sixties, I thought retiring at 65 seemed too early. Yet data shows most American workers retire at 63 or 64, and we hcan claim Social Security benefits at 62. So what is the right age to retire? Now at 77, I’m still putting in a 60- to 70-hour workweek and am glad I didn’t stop working at 62 or at 65, partly because I like being productive and partly because of the powerful economic benefits of working longer…Read More