Tag: Retirement
How to invest if you’re worried a recession is coming
Alexander Kurov, West Virginia University
Although the U.S. economy continues to grow and add jobs, talk of a recession is increasingly in the air due...
The real midlife crisis confronting many Americans
Frank J. Infurna, Arizona State University
The way my mom imagined it, midlife was going to be great: counting down days until retirement, spending winters...
Millennials are US$1 trillion in debt – but they’re better at...
Jimmie Lenz, University of South Carolina
New findings from the New York Federal Reserve reveal that millennials have now racked up over US$1 trillion of...
Social Security helped slash elderly poverty to 9.2 percent in the...
David W. Rasmussen, Florida State University
In 1959, more than a third of all elderly Americans lived in poverty. Slashing that number to under 10...
Social Security’s future is safe
Christian Weller, University of Massachusetts Boston
Social Security is the bedrock of Americans’ retirement income security. So you may have been concerned by the news...
How Olympic athletes grapple with life once the thrill is gone
Edward Etzel, West Virginia University
Hundreds of Winter Olympians around the world are saying farewell to the thrill of a lifetime. While a handful will...
For pro athletes on the cusp of retirement, what psychological challenges...
Maria Doelger Anderson, Boston University
Some of the biggest names in professional sports are facing retirement. David Ortiz and Kobe Bryant recently announced that they’ll...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
