Via Women's eNews: By: Susan F. Feiner Obama's discussion of the economy on CNBC last week included what Susan Feiner sees as an alarming reference to Social Security as an "entitlement." In fact, it's a self-funded jobs insurance program that women can't afford to lose. Anyone who watched President Barak Obama defend his handling of …
Retiring Later Is Hard Road for Laborers
From the New York Times: At the Cooper Tire plant in Findlay, Ohio, Jack Hartley, who is 58, works a 12-hour shift assembling tires: pulling piles of rubber and lining over a drum, cutting the material with a hot knife, lifting the half-finished tire, which weighs 10 to 20 pounds, and throwing it onto a …
Economic Status of Elderly Americans
The title says it all in a newly released report from the National Academy of Social Insurance, Economic Status of Elderly Americans. The report offers a look at the economic status of elderly Americans, comparing current median standards against younger generations. They find elderly people saw sharp gains in their incomes during the 1960s and …
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