Alliance for Retired Americans Friday Alert – September 26, 2014

New York Times Stresses the Importance of Older Voters According to The New York Times, older voters this year are not favoring Republicans by the overwhelming 21 points that they did in the 2010 midterm elections. Democratic pollster Geoff Garin suggests that even a small shift by older voters will have an outsized impact on…

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ARA Friday Alert: This Labor Day, Let’s Raise America’s Pay – It Will Help with Retirement Savings

August 29, 2014 The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) addresses extremely slow wage growth just in time for Labor Day. Available at http://tinyurl.com/l4duxgm, EPI’s paper shows that wages for most Americans were flat or fell in the first half of 2014, compared to this time last year. The study’s author, Elise Gould, says that wages even…

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