Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, sociologist Katherine S. Newman talks about her book “Downhill from Here: Retirement Insecurity in the Age of Inequality,” and why she believes the current American retirement crisis touches us all, cutting across class lines and generational divides.
As millions of Baby Boomers reach their golden years, the state of retirement in America is little short of a disaster.
Nearly half the households with people aged 55 and older have no retirement savings at all. The real estate crash wiped out much of the home equity that millions were counting on to support their retirement. And the typical Social Security check covers less than 40 percent of pre-retirement wages.
Today Leonard talks to Elizabeth Anderson In her book “Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (And Why We Don’t Talk About It),” Elizabeth...
Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Professor in the Practice of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore Kishore Mahbubani will discuss with...
The topic today is the complex and often troubled history of the Environmental Protection Agency with Robert Hargrove, former director of the agency’s National...