The Rules of Retirement for Women
Date: Sep 06 2012
Filed under: Retirement
By Susan B. Garland
For women heading toward retirement, there’s good news and bad news. The good news is they’re likely to be blessed with long life. The bad news: They may not be able to afford it.
That, in effect, is the conclusion of a recent study by the U.S. General Accounting Office. Despite the increase in women’s workforce-participation rates over the past two decades, the poverty rate in 2010 for women 65 and older was 9% — nearly twice the rate for men, at 5%. And while 6% of…
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