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 [...]

Could New Seniors Be Growing Younger?

In Oscar Wilde’s novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” a handsome young man believes his life would not be worth living once his good looks faded with age.  So, he sold his soul to the devil and the man remained young while a portrait of him aged instead.  He meets a tragic end, and his [...]

Seniors are special, but we’re not a typical special interest group.

The media have reported that seniors have become more vocal as health care continues to be America’s hot topic.  As a pre-boomer, I have expressed my concerns to anyone who will listen and tried to recruit others born between 1930 and 1945 to get active on this issue.  Until the final bill is rolled out [...]

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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