Tag: Retirement

Who is your emergency contact? Older adults living alone must be more prepared. 

If you live alone and have no nearby next of kin, who do you call if there’s an emergency?Sure, there may be friends...

Job-hunting over 50: 500 applications, dozens of interviews and zero offers

Chris Autry built, opened and ran corporate call centers for about 30 years. His longest stretch of unemployment was for six months in...

Money rules retirees wish they had followed when they were younger

If retirees got a financial do-over, many would make different decisions — including starting to save earlier, maxing out retirement accounts and living...

Working longer won’t solve the retirement crisis — seniors need a ‘Gray New Deal’ to retire with dignity, this economist says

The Value Gap is a MarketWatch interview series with business leaders, academics, policymakers and activists on reducing racial and social inequalities.Teresa Ghilarducci thinks older...