Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.
There is a kind of fear approaching a panic that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.
The Band was always famous for its retirements we'd go and play and get a little petty cash together and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again.
In spite of reports about playing with various teams I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.
A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family to own a home and save for retirement.
It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week the minimum wage family leave health insurance Social Security Medicare retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve.
We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market and we don't know frankly how it would work under every scenario.
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.