by dankeelan | Jan 9, 2024 | Featured, Gig Workers, Retirement
Alexandrea Ravenelle studies the decline of the one-job era. The sociologist chronicles the spread of the gig economy and the rise of “poly-working,” or working multiple jobs. Ravenelle points to research by the Federal Reserve that...
by dankeelan | Dec 5, 2023 | Age, Featured, Gig Workers, Retirement
Millions of boomers retired during the pandemic, but some didn’t entirely leave the workforce — they just joined the gig economy. As many as seven million gig workers are missing from official government employment figures, according to...
by dankeelan | Oct 17, 2023 | Age, Featured, Retirement
Retirement-age Americans are learning to live with less and work longer due to record debt. In a conversation thread around retirement plans on Reddit, users were quick to share their ongoing financial struggles, particularly connected to retirement. Some have...
by dankeelan | Oct 3, 2023 | Featured, Mentoring, Retirement
After several decades of working and saving, the transition into retirement can be tricky. Not only can retirement involve a major lifestyle shift (i.e., how to fill all of those hours that were previously spent at work) but also a financial transition from...
by dankeelan | Sep 5, 2023 | Featured, Gig Workers, Retirement
Life expectancy at birth is now 77, 15 years later than in 1935 when the U.S. adopted 65 as the official retirement age. The prevalence of centenarians — people over the age of 100 — in our population has doubled. Many people are choosing to spend those extra years in...
by dankeelan | Aug 22, 2023 | Retirement
Maine and Colorado have forged a new partnership to make it easier, faster and more cost-effective for workers in Maine to save for retirement, a first-in-the-nation kind of pact that experts hope other small states will follow. Under the program, the Maine Retirement...
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