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DBoon

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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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