Tag: baby boomers

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For a growing share of older Americans, housing expenses have become an increasingly large financial burden. One in three Americans over age 50 were carrying a severe or moderate housing cost burden in 2012, up from one in four in 2000, according to a new study by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies and AARP. T…

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This blog has a single writer posting just two articles a week. So it’s impossible to keep up with all the news that crosses the transom. But perhaps because the work world is gearing back up this fall, there have been a lot of interesting stories lately about financial behavior.  Here are three worth noting:…

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