The French, God love them, are protesting in the millions over President Emmanuel Macron’s proposal to increase the retirement age for government pensions from, wait, 62 to 64 – even as Americans must...
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Bipartisan Cooperation to Battle Poverty
Bipartisan collaboration is all too rare these days. But Ohio’s two senators – the progressive Sherrod Brown and the conservative Rob Portman – are cosponsoring legislation to increase the asset limit...
Will Hordes Of Poor Seniors Overwhelm Government Welfare Programs?
The editors of Bloomberg recently published a series of editorials on America’s impending “retirement crisis,” which they assert could “under reasonable assumptions … overwhelm state budgets across th...
How Delayed Retirement Enhanced Americans’ Retirement Security
In 1934, the French entomologist Antoine Magnan calculated that bees should not be able to fly. The aerodynamics were all wrong. The bees didn’t listen and flew anyway. We’ve also heard for decades th...