Nan Mooney, AlterNet. September 17, 2009. Surprising numbers of workers in their 20s and 30s have little faith in their retirement security. Here's why they should be more optimistic.
Jed Lewison, Daily Kos AlterNet: PEEK. July 11, 2009. Palin claimed that her time in office would be a waste of tax dollars, due to the ethics complaints lodged against her. But the numbers don't add up.
Alexander Zaitchik, AlterNet. March 6, 2009. Millions of boomers born into the dawn of the largest economic expansion in history are being forced to re-imagine their retirement futures.
Chris Bowers, Open Left AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. February 18, 2009. Don't discount the possibility that Social Security could actually be cut even under a Democratic trifecta.
Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. February 12, 2009. People in the know indicate that things like raising the retirement age and cutting benefits are under consideration.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. January 10, 2009. Here's what the 50 million workers who saw their retirement plans drop by as much as 30 percent last year should know.
Shamus Cooke, Information Clearing House. December 19, 2008. Unless things change fast, history will show that the phenomenon of "retirement" was limited to one generation.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. October 14, 2008. 401(k)s are the contemporary version of the get-rich-quick scheme. They place retirement in the shaky hands of the market.
Nicholas von Hoffman, The Nation. July 25, 2008. People are discovering they have been forced into a system in which others have gambled with their retirement savings and lost it.
Don Monkerud, AlterNet. September 3, 2007. Compared to people in other developed countries, Americans don't ask for more vacation time, don't take all the vacation time their employers give them and continue to work while they are on vacation.
Deb Price, King Features Syndicate. July 30, 2007. Financially free at last, my spouse and I don't need a newer car or a house in a ritzier neighborhood. We've matured faster than our savings bonds.
