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In a time when life expectancy in the U.S. is declining for the first time in decades and Americans can expect on average to enjoy even fewer years of retirement, Republicans are considering a radical plan to shrink the retirement window.
House Republicans have been working out the details of their deeply unpopular plan to cut Social Security and Medicare in order to deepen poverty and shackle people to the labor force further into old age.
The party is considering a proposal to raise the retirement age for Social Security to 70, per The Washington Post, which means that workers and retirees would have to work an additional 3 to 4 years to receive full benefit. This proposal would mostly affect younger workers who have not yet started to receive benefits from the program.
Under this proposal, Americans could expect to be able to enjoy retirement for […]
Oligarchs the world over seem to push at the same time.
France is trying to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64, yes, 62 to 64.
The people are rising in defiance! AP reports a million people in protest last weekend, the unions estimated over 2 million,
Where is the backbone of the people of the USA?
https://apnews.com/article/france-retirement-age-limit-protests-866eb86aea5cf0d39894b96d2888c26f
What about people who become disabled and do not have a lot of input into the IRS? I am one of those people!