Moving and Retirement
Testimonies: Choosing to Work During Retirement & Extending the Bush Tax Cuts
Baucus pressed witnesses on the need to ensure that tax rate cuts intended to benefit small businesses really do benefit small businesses and not a small number of extremely wealthy individuals receiving income from large businesses. more »
Why Not Take the Slow Lane?
I thought about the Kindle and the iPad, but I didn’t think about them long. I’m sure something better, that incorporates a bazillion features and will function like a personal computer, a telephone, a television, an e-book, and possibly a food-o-matic will soon be touted. When it arrives, I’ll think about it, slowly. more »
The Older Unemployed Worker and The Job Market
Nearly half (49.1 percent) of older jobseekers had been unemployed for 27 weeks or longer in February 2010, compared with 28.5 percent of workers aged 16 to 24 years and 41.3 percent of workers aged 25 to 54 years. more »
How Seniors Change Their Asset Holdings During Retirement
More generally, our results indicate that most of the older population is extremely cautious in formulating their spending plans as they age. This may be because of a very strong bequest motive or because of a concern that they will face emergency expenditures, most probably related to health care. However, the conservatism is so extreme, especially among the more affluent, that one cannot avoid the suspicion that many are unnecessarily forgoing consumption. more »
