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Working Poor

DBoon

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Reply to mfcorey1 (Original post)

Fri Aug 16, 2019, 04:44 PM

Aug 2019

America has embarked on a 40-year economic experiment of do-it-yourself pensions, the breaking of unions, real wage stagnation, the common practice of discarding workers in their 50s, and cutting Social Security benefits by raising the retirement age. The effects of that experiment are now coming home to roost in bankruptcy courts across the nation and, more broadly, in the form of personal misery among aging boomers.

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Elderly Bankruptcy Is On The Rise -- Here's Why [View all] mfcorey1 Aug 2019 OP

I like this quote DBoon Aug 2019 #1

you must pass a means test to receive medicaid rampartc Aug 2019 #2

Worth the read Sherman A1 Aug 2019 #3

I read the other day about the increase in suicides among the elderly. dixiegrrrrl Aug 2019 #4

Let's not forget that SS benefits were not taxed until Ronald Reagan decided stopbush Aug 2019 #5

Damn...I had forgotten he was the one. dixiegrrrrl Aug 2019 #6

Hmmm. 85% of my Social Security check of $1683/mo is taxed progree Aug 2019 #7