Unlike Jack Nicholson’s character in A Few Good Men, we trust that you can handle the truth. No matter your age, securing a comfortable retirement is a huge concern. Folks want the whole truth about their financial outlook, but straight answers are hard to come by.
Both sides of the mainstream media habitually present opinion-tainted partial facts. Case in point: the unemployment numbers announced earlier this month. One side is cheering because unemployment dropped to a six-year low, while the other side is calling it pure fraud.
I found author and libertarian-about-town Wayne Root’s remarks in a recent article for The Blaze particularly telling:
The middle class isn’t getting richer, it’s getting poorer…
The only people being hired are your grandparents. 230,000 of the new jobs went to those in the 55-to-69-year-old age group. In the prime working age group of 24 to 54 years old, 10,000 jobs were lost…
It means grandma and grandpa are desperate and willing to take grandson’s low wage job to survive until Social Security kicks in. The US workforce is now the oldest in history. And if grandpa has to work(out of desperation) until the day he dies, there will never be any decent jobs for the grandkids.
Here’s the part Root gets wrong: Baby boomers are not working until Social Security kicks in. They’re working well past that point, because they feel they must. Smart boomers know they can’t afford to wait until robust interest rates return; they’re taking action to protect themselves now, lest their circumstances become truly dire.
Source: https://www.equities.com/news/are-you-saving-enough-for-retirement-chances-are-that-you-re-not
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I agree the BLS NFP number is a farce! It has been for over 25 years. If they keep missing the numbers BLS will change the definition of "employed." As for Boomers working longer, my parents receive SSI but mom still works just to make ends meet. The one thing that millenials have going for them is their shear size.
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