Like Many Americans, My Mom Has No Retirement Savings

By Tiffany Williams / Other Words Dec 10, 2015 “My plan is just to work until I die.” That’s how my mom sums up her retirement prospects. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Pension Funds Are Endangered by Plummeting Coal Prices

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 15, 2015 The retirement funds of millions of teachers, public sector workers, health care workers and academics are in jeopardy as the price of coal drops and a global campaign to divest from businesses that deal in the fuel gains steam. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

VIDEO: Expanding Social Security Is Step 3 in Saving the Economy

Robert Reich / Truthdig May 16, 2015 You hear a lot about how corporations are struggling to make good on their pension promises, and how Social Security won’t be there for you in retirement. Baloney on both counts. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Why You Should Dump Your Oil, Coal and Gas Stocks If You Ever Want to Retire

Juan Cole / Truthdig Mar 11, 2015 What is the total value of big energy corporations' oil, gas and coal fields -- which give them their stock prices and are counted as assets for borrowing purposes? Those hydrocarbon resources are actually worth zero. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

SOTU Preview: Obama to Pitch Plan to Raise Taxes on the Wealthy

Kasia Anderson / Truthdig Jan 19, 2015 President Obama appears as though he's not about to take the whole lame-duck thing (not to mention the Republican-lockdown-on-Congress thing) sitting down, given his outline for Tuesday's State of the Union address. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The 2015 Federal Budget Ended Pension Protections for Millions of Retirees (Videos)

BLANK Jan 5, 2015 A rule sneaked into the new federal budget endangers retiring Americans by eliminating the government's legal obligation to insure pensions in the event the funds cannot pay retirees. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Shift to Bad Retirement Plans Threatens Retirees With Privation

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Oct 5, 2014 The United States' largest employers are knowingly pushing their workers into inadequate retirement plans. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Retiring Congressmen

Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons Jan 17, 2014 Dig deeper

Work Until You’re Dead?

By Mike Whitney, CounterPunch Jan 2, 2014 A sizable chunk of the adult population is going to punch a clock until they keel over in the office parking lot and get hauled off in the company dumpster. And those are the lucky ones, the so called baby boomers. By the time we get to the millennials it’ll be even worse because the economy will have been ravaged by 25 or 30 years of austerity leaving the proles to scrape by on hardtack and gruel. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Climate Threatens Retirement Savings

By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network Dec 13, 2013 A group that monitors how investment funds manage the risks of climate change says many are exposing their investors to massive future losses. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Pension Reform

Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons Nov 30, 2013 Dig deeper

Elizabeth Warren: ‘Make No Mistake, There Is a [Retirement] Crisis’

Staff / Truthdig Nov 22, 2013 After The Washington Post mocked the idea of Americans facing a looming retirement crisis, the inimitable senator from Massachusetts took to her chamber's floor to remind us that talking about Social Security benefits isn't about "math, [it's] about our values." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )