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Live With It: Retirement Must Shrink

Longer lifespans, older population mean quitting age has to rise

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 26, 2009 12:13 PM CDT

(Newser) – With people living longer and having fewer children in developed countries, the population is aging even as the workforce shrinks. And with retirement ages in the 60s, retirees are living longer on pensions. Those demographic shifts make a policy shift inevitable: we’re all going...   Read full story »

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