Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites.
Pay off your mortgage before retirement, and that's one less bill you'll have to worry about when you're on a fixed income.
A 401(k) is essentially a basket of mutual funds intended to help people save for retirement.
My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.
Younger workers should have more freedom to build their retirement nest egg.
People just haven't saved enough for retirement. And they're going to outlive their money.
We shouldn't be put out to pasture just because we've reached somebody's idea of retirement, which was certainly happening in Australia, and I think elsewhere as well.
President Roosevelt, the author of Social Security, was the first to suggest that, in order to provide for the country's retirement needs, Social Security would need to be supplemented by personal savings accounts.
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
Though Congress continues to explore possible solutions to ensure social security solvency, everyone must take personal responsibility to prepare their own retirement savings accordingly.
I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security.
The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.
Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
Retirement is purgatory for the former sports star. The world outside organized sports is unforgiving.
Payroll savings plans are vital because they are essentially the only way that middle-class Americans reliably save for retirement.
In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts.
Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.
The retirement age needs to be raised. A portion of Social Security ought to be privatized, if not all. And there probably needs to be some means testing. It's a Ponzi scheme that's not sustainable.
I'm not philosophically opposed to raising the retirement age... I accept the fact that I may have to raise my retirement age for that.
Voters should be assured that I absolutely do not support raising the retirement age for Social Security.