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Magnifying glass over the words 'life insurance'

Angela Mahany was completely in the dark about how complicated her late husband’s finances had become. Dick Mahany, in a loving effort years ago to make sure she would be set financially when he died, had borrowed money from a whole life insurance policy that had built up a cash balance to buy a term…

a man in a black shirt and goggles, controls a mechanical machine

We just finished a paper on how older workers use “nontraditional” jobs – that is, jobs without health and retirement benefits.  In the process of answering that question, we found that only 26 percent of older workers were employed steadily in traditional jobs with benefits.  This finding has really changed how I think about people’s…