Obama Budget

Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant Apr 14, 2013 Dig deeper

Workers Can’t Save Enough to Retire

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Mar 19, 2013 A survey found that more than half of Americans have less than $25,000 in savings and investments excluding their homes, while 28 percent doubt they will have enough money to retire comfortably -- a high in more than two decades of study. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Retirement Age

Cam Cardow, Cagle Cartoons, The Ottawa Citizen Feb 21, 2013 Dig deeper

How a Bunch of Liberal Groups Are Trying to Kill the Filibuster and Citizens United

Staff / Truthdig Jan 19, 2013 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The progressive plot to save representative democracy, China's retirement bomb, Republican junk science, and doping in sports. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Geezers

Signe Wilkinson / Truthdig Jan 10, 2013 Dig deeper

OECD: Governments Must Raise Retirement Age

Staff / Truthdig Jun 13, 2012 A new report issued by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development has advised governments to increase the retirement age in their countries. In the face of longer life expectancies, a higher retirement age is the only way to keep pension programs solvent, it says. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Recovery Drags as Americans Dip Into Savings

Staff / Truthdig Jan 18, 2012 For obvious reasons, Americans' savings accounts are shrinking during this ongoing recession, both because there's not as much money to deposit and many more reasons to make withdrawals. This has consequences for the economy's long-term recovery prospects, as does another currently popular method of payment: the credit card. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Corporate Wolf Eats Grandmother Alive

By Kelly Johnson Dec 2, 2011 Ellen E. Schultz's "Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit From the Nest Eggs of American Workers" reveals how fleecing the elderly is just business as usual for corporations. If the retirement industry isn’t reined in, she concludes, we’ll be right back where we were in the 1930s. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Social Security and the Generation Gap

Staff / Truthdig Nov 5, 2011 Most Americans think that the big government entitlement programs -- Social Security and Medicare -- are a good thing. But young and old part company, according to a new Pew report, over the current effectiveness of the programs and what to do about it. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Retire

Staff / Truthdig Oct 6, 2011 Dig deeper

Postal Service May Slash 35,000 Jobs

Staff / Truthdig Sep 15, 2011 The U.S. Postal Service said Thursday that it is thinking about closing more than half of its mail-processing centers, which would eliminate more than 35,000 jobs, in order to turn a profit. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Retirees and Wrong Assumptions

Staff / Truthdig Aug 1, 2011 On Sunday, President Obama and members of the U.S. Congress agreed to cut at least $2.4 trillion from federal spending over the next 10 years, some of which will come from programs that benefit retired Americans. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )