But Germans are angry over having to pay taxes to support Greeks, who have different ideas about hard work and retirement ages.
But I want to stress, the ultimate goal for economic policy is not hitting a specific metric, but whether the culmination of your policies lead to a stronger, more secure, and more inclusive middle class where everyone can rise, and where even children born into the poorest circumstances have a chance to reach their potential and where dignified work and retirement is promoted.
So Medicare too is an entitlement program that discourages work and subsidizes retirement.
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Many people assume they can simply work in retirement and that way of thinking may sell them short, sabotaging their retirement planning.
Even with the economy improving, considering the staggering number of people who are out of work and those whose retirement plans have been decimated, buying a home may no longer be a part of the American dream, at least not in the near future.
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Some workers never get to their economic promised land and have to work hard up to and through retirement.
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Negotiations with its European unions over work practices, retirement benefits and the size of the work force is a running story.
It brings both pilot groups under a single contract, and provides gains in compensation, work rules, job protections and retirement and other benefits, the union said.
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In Forbes, we wrote about why long-term investors might want to think twice before investing in gold (whether the metal itself or stocks from gold mining companies), how to push for a better retirement plan at work and how to avoid costly mistakes in your Individual Retirement Account.
Workers work and pay taxes and pay into the German retirement system until they are 67.
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The organization has done some quality work on retirement security and published an independent research project I wrote last year on structured products.
Experts say more tech-loving seniors like Anderson are on the horizon as baby boomers, who are used to using technology at work and at home reach retirement age, setting the stage for a huge number of older tech users.
Now that her children are a surgeon, architect and business manager, they are in retirement plans through work and responsible for their own contributions, "but we just had a talk at Thanksgiving about funding yourself first, " Ms. Kolff says.
To rebuild the middle class and sustain the American Dream, to provide the opportunity to those who were willing to work hard and have that work rewarded, to save for college, a home and retirement, to afford the gas and groceries and still have a little left over each month.
But it is hard, not least because Western societies have started ageing, which means that fewer people are in work paying tax and more in retirement claiming benefits.
One night, Julian decided that Obie might stay and work for him if he went into his meagre retirement savings and paid him a real salary.
Three out of four middle-income boomers expect to work in retirement, according to the Bankers Life and Casualty Company Center for a Secure Retirement (CSR).
More than half of all Workampers work to supplement their retirement income and travel while doing so.
Another option is to actually learn how to become a better investor and work hard to make your retirement stash grow at a rate higher than the 7% to 10% annually that you might expect from a index fund or with a financial advisor.
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An across-the-board increase in the retirement age will mean that many of those who work the most unpleasant and least remunerative jobs will not live to enjoy any retirement time whatsoever.
Not only will we increasingly be learning while playing and working, we also will conceptualize less and less that our life span is segmented into four segments: play (childhood), learn (childhood to adult), work (adult), and play (retirement).
That category includes individual retirement accounts and vehicles that work like them--Keoghs, 401(k)s and so on.
Many who managed to go out and work have already been forced into early retirement, while others who used to rely on their parents for everyday care, can no longer do so.
And I'll work to strengthen spousal protections to ensure that widows and qualified divorced widows receive the retirement benefits they are due.
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The government also wants us to work longer, and save more, to finance our retirement as our longevity continues to increase.
Sure there is lots of talk from those who plan to work in retirement that a life of golf outings and beach days would simply be interminably boring.
The Commons debate comes as union leaders are threatening industrial action over the government's proposals for public sector employees to work longer and pay more for less generous entitlements in retirement.
The decline in the unemployment rate wasn't the result of more people getting jobs, but, rather, almost 500, 000 individuals leaving the work force because of layoffs as well as retirement and other reasons.
If employers step to the plate to introduce retirement solutions to employees and even work to enhance these opportunities for their retirees, I believe we may be able to save millions of Americans from impoverished elder years at a very low cost to either employer or employee.
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That's why we're proposing to give more workers better access to retirement plans at work, to match retirement savings for middle class Americans so they can save more, and to strengthen and update the 401(k) regulations so that they can save with greater confidence.
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