The Social Security 2100 Act is critical for millennials and small business owners

Image: Jeff Djevdet via Flickr Creative Commons, https://flic.kr/p/JZRWEC [The Hill] Expanding Social Security is critical for millennials and small business owners — and especially for millennial small business owners.  We are co-owners of a small business, We Act Radio in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, DC. As small business owners and managers, one of whom …

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The New Politics of the Retirement Crisis

Image: Stewart Ayrey via Flickr Creative Commons | https://flic.kr/p/9W8Sub It’s no surprise that 46 percent of Americans expect to be financially insecure when they retire, anticipating their government and employers will do next to nothing to help them. But these grim fears also open up a political opportunity. As 18 million Baby Boomers brace for …

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Economic Insecurity Is Becoming the New Hallmark of Old Age

Image via The Nation [The Nation] The United States is in the early stages of a crippling retirement crisis. Nearly half of all private-sector employees in the country—some 58 million people—had no company-sponsored retirement plan in 2018. As recently as 1999, only 39 percent of retiring workers were in this predicament. The retirement situation in …

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