Word: retirees
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Just the night before the Pope landed, while his jet was already well into its 16-hour flight from Rome to Argentina, crowds were still celebrating Malvinas Day. But the mood was already shifting from fatherland to Holy Father: a bent old lady fingered her Rosary at Our Lady of...
Several blacks in shouting range of Holmes later called out for him to retire now as the only undefeated black heavy weight champion. He thanked them kindly for the thought but plainly is of a mind to continue. "I feel good," he said. "I achieved something once again." Of course...
A more reasonable objection to raising the retirement age is voiced by Harvard Economist William Hsiao. Says he: "Armchair professors and bureaucrats who sit behind desks pushing a pencil all day can work until age 68 without any serious difficulty," but manual workers are too worn out by physical labor...
(12 of 12) federal employees to retire early on a civil service pension, work for a few years in a job in private industry, and qualify for a Social Security pension too. But any proposal for such change faces two serious obstacles. Federal employees constitute a significant lobbying force, and...
The real long-range worry is a potential demographic disaster for Social Security, beginning around the year 2010. Then the baby boomers will start to retire, in numbers greater than U.S. society has ever had to cope with. Meanwhile, the working population will have been thinned by the low birth...