This Super Bowl Sunday episode discusses the ridiculousness of Super Bowl and stock market studies, and more importantly shines a light on the scary statistics surrounding just how many Americans are drastically under funded for retirement. Wes also shares five core habits of the happiest re...
and the percentage of people in poverty. We analyzed crime statistics using FBI National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) data. We considered important health care metrics by evaluating access to hospitals and primary care doctors using the United Health Foundation’s America’s Health Rankings...
Introduction Paychecks end upon retirement, but living expenses continue. Today’s retirees face a growing danger of out-living their retirement funds. A retirement crisis occurs whenever the inflow of money into a retirement system fails to match its obligation to retirees. The three largest sources...
12 Alternatives to Full-Time Retirement Ease into retirement at your own pace and in a way that aligns with your interests. Rachel HartmanDec. 19, 2024 What Do Lower Rates Mean for Retirees? Retirees may need to rethink their investments and income plans as interest rates begin to decline. ...
The Average Retirement Age In America To get a retirement age baseline, as you can see in the chart below, the average retirement age is between 61-65 for 51% of Americans. 63% of Americans retire between the ages of 61-69. In a quest to live a better-than-average life, it's logi...
Whatever the true mean or median retirement savings balance is in America, the biggest difference comes from those who actually decide to save for retirement and those who do not. The long term trend for stocks, bonds, and real estate is up and to the right. Further, once youstart religiou...
According to Cruise Market, which compiles statistics on the cruise industry, the estimated per-passenger, per-day cost for an average cruise in 2024 is $295.05. That includes a daily ticket price of $179.01 and onboard spending of $80.05 per person for an average cruise duration of 8.5 da...
The early retirement of experienced workers is seriously harming the U.S. economy, according to a new report from the Hudson Institute, a public policy research organization. Currently, many older experienced workers retire at an early age. According to the recently issued statistics, 79 percent ...
Most older persons, especially in the case of the United States of America, tend to live primarily alone or with a spouse only (see Annex Table A.1, also United Nations2012), driving up the per capita value of housing consumption.
Let's be clear:you can't retire in Americaon anything even remotely close to $25,000.00. Multiplying that number by 10 doesn't even get you close. Simply put, people are consistentlyfailing to build enough retirement savings. It doesn't matter if you viewed these statistics back in 2009,...