Retirement

For many of us who are approaching retirement or are just tired of the work we’ve done for the last umpteen years, the opportunity to remake ourselves with a new “encore” career is alluring. At the website Second Lives Club, founders Carrie Tuhy and Mary Lou Floyd occasionally blog about…

For many of us, our work is a source of pleasure or meaning. And equally, for many of us, working is essential to keeping us economically afloat. While physically demanding jobs may be difficult to continue as we get older, most of us assume we can put off retirement if…

Now that the holidays and winter are upon us, it’s easy to think of a warm hat or scarf as an appropriate and useful gift. One New York-based start-up wants you to also think about being socially conscious while you go about your holiday shopping. Wooln is a new crowd-funded manufacturer of…

The Great American Dream: Decades in a stable, well paying job, then secure retirement and easy street going forward. For most, that dream no longer exists and in fact, a nightmare scenario has arisen. Fewer and fewer Americans these days can even dream of any sort of retirement, with little…

There’s a lot of myth and misunderstanding out there regarding the long term viability of Social Security. While it’s unlikely to go bust in our lifetime, there are serious policy questions about it’s long term viability and changes that need to happen. But that’s a provocative topic few politicians are…

Most of us have a basic sense of what Medicare is: health insurance for older people. But the components of Medicare, and the expanse of its coverage, are often more complicated than beginners realize.  Different parts, different enrollment options, some things covered, some things not- an array of terms that…