Conventional Retirement is a Plan to be Poor Dear Reader, According to the Social Security Department, the average benefit in 2018 will be $1,461 a month. This is equivalent to having an $8 per hour job. Originally sold as a temporary program, it has morphed into a...
Dear Reader, The Great Recession, which, in our analysis, never ended, may have bought the Social Security Administration another few decades. Interesting data from a longevity researcher at the University of Illinois showed that for poor Americans, their life...