Teresa Ghilarducci

We need to take care of our older Americans. It's time to tackle elder poverty and the retirement crisis head on.

With the presidential race heating to a boil, America's looming retirement crisis should take center stage in this election alongside other top issues.

With the presidential race heating to a boil, America’s looming retirement crisis should take center stage in this election alongside other top issues. But so far, apart from a few mentions of Social Security, elder poverty and lack of retirement security have been cast to the sidelines.

With the presidential race heating to a boil, America’s looming retirement crisis should take center stage in this election alongside other top issues. But so far, apart from a few

With the presidential race heating to a boil, America’s looming retirement crisis should take center stage in this election alongside other top issues.

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I fear that American workers are approaching the end of their lives with more inequality than when they were working. For the first time in modern American history, gains in retirement time are concentrated at the economic top. Let's set aside for now the political and philosophical questions of who deserves a healthy retirement, and what does it matter if only the rich can have it? This chapter measures the distribution of healthy retirement years—who gets how much paid time off in their final years.

Without Congressional and Presidential action to raise revenues, benefits would be immediately reduced by 23 percent Under Trump's plan benefits will fall by 33 percent.

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Many of us dream of retiring early to enjoy life with our loved ones. The problem? Few of us—The Jackal included—have the financial resources