Is Reducing the Retirement Age to 60 a Good or Bad Idea?

Congressman, Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) recently announced he will introduce a bill designed to create a million jobs for unemployed workers by allowing people who have reached 60 to take early retirement.  The question is, how can adding to the growing roles of those on Social Security and other government-run/taxpayer-funded programs possibly be good for the [...]

High unemployment hurts everyone.

The jobless rate reached 10.2 percent as October ended, marking the highest level of unemployment in nearly three decades.  Percentages are just statistics; the reality is there are 15.7 million men and women who want to work but cannot find a job.  Add to this the underemployed, those who are working part-time even though they [...]

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