Tag: Social Security

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As inflation has gained traction in the last year, commentators constantly remark about how it is particularly hard on retirees who live on a “fixed income.”  Please stop!  Retirees do not live on fixed incomes.  The 60 percent of households in the lower portion of the income distribution receive the bulk of their retirement incom…

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Howard Gantman didn’t exactly have a plan for retirement. Rather, he wandered into it during the early months of COVID chaos. Nevertheless, retirement is going better than he’d expected. Gantman, who read comic books and science fiction voraciously as a child, has rediscovered his passion. He joined a writing group on Zoom and is working…