Tag: retirement

Financial firms want a bigger piece of the $10 trillion in America’s 401(k) plans, and the Trump administration is planning a regulatory rollback to encourage less-regulated—and often riskier—investments.

In the private equity casino, Wall Street never risks its own chips. They rake in the pot while you’re left holding the losses.

Musk’s comments, while not new in conservative circles, are part of a broader pattern of attacks on Social Security, which millions of Americans rely on for retirement and disability benefits.

By continuing to hold fossil fuel investments, the logic goes, CalPERS may be taking some of that money and using it to add fuel to the wildfires of tomorrow.

Under the current, broken system, the rich feather their own nests at everyone else’s expense.

The increasing economic burdens on older Americans are part of the growing rallying cry over wealth inequality among progressives.

"Those results underscore the reality of an uneven playing field for women in the American economy and the economic opportunity cost after years as mothers and caregivers and not wage-earners."

And no fix they come up with should come out of the pockets of workers or retirees.

Vote for legislators who want to allow workers to save for retirement and against legislators who are shills for the financial sector.

A lot of U.S. citizens do not have a retirement savings and depend on social security when it is time to leave the workforce.