Early Retirement Blog

The man responsible for creating the calculation for when you can collect Social Security died today at age 97.   Robert Myers worked for FDR and came up with the calculation for the launch of Social Security. He was tasked to figure out, at what age workers could retire and begin collecting Social Security checks, [...]

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Boomers Getting High in Retirement The number of people aged 50 and older reporting marijuana use in the prior year went up from 1.9 per cent to 2.9 per cent from 2002 to 2008, according to surveys from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Full article here. The rise was most dramatic among [...]

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Ohio Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich is set to introduce legislation, which would lower the retirement age, in an effort to lower unemployment.  An idea first proposed here on the Green Retirement Blog back in October of 2008. Under the Kucinich plan, the first million workers who choose to participate, would be able to begin receiving [...]

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Stop San Francisco School Teacher Layoffs Update: The San Francisco Unified School District has announced that it will be laying off more than 900 San Francisco school teachers and administrators.   While it may be too late to prevent the layoffs, If you receive a pink slip from the school district, do yourself a favor [...]

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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa ordered the immediate layoffs of 1,000 Los Angeles city employees, who only a day earlier thought their families had won a reprieve from financial ruin, when the Los Angeles City Council delayed their layoff decision to seek alternative methods for saving their jobs. Los Angeles government workers got one night’s [...]

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