TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s government is ready to strike a deal with the opposition to pass a critical bill needed to prevent a severe funding squeeze and it is now up to the opposition to spell out its conditions, Vice Finance Minister Tsutomu Okubo said on Thursday.
One-third of Americans say they need to work into their 80s
Nearly one-third of Americans say they plan to work into their eighties since they can’t afford to retire earlier, according to a Harris Institute survey.As Bonnie Kavoussi noted in the Huffington Post, “Retirement is becoming an unaffordable luxury for a growing number of middle-class Americans.” She attributes the increasing inability to retire at 65 and live decently to the middle-class squeeze of recent decades — a mixture of inflation, productivity increases and stagnating wages:The U.S.’ real median household income, at just $50,054, is roughly at the same level where it was in 1989. While worker productivity has risen 69 percent since 1979, median hourly compensation rose just 6.5 percent during the same time period, according to the Economic Policy Institute.Continue Reading… … Read More
