AARP has officially welcomed Generation X with a lovely set of colorful and informative infographics. I posted one last week. Here’s the rest. Generation X and Technology This infographic highlights Gen X’s penchant for technology. A whopping 71 percent of us are Facebook and 74 percent of us own smart phones. Generation X and […]
Generation X: Prepare For A Frugal Retirement
Hamilton Nolan of Gawker is so funny. And, occasionally cruel if you’re a member of Generation Y. He wrote a hilarious (and depressing) piece yesterday on the grim prospects of the Generation X retirement: Generation X,” the Poor Old People of the Future, Will Never Retire. It was inspired by a Jeanna Smialek’s piece in […]
More Gen X Retirement Woes + Current Gen-X News
Trivial Pursuit Blue Pie | The Jennifer Chronicles | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Retirement Woes: Gen X Retirement Retirement May Be Impossible for Generation X is a familiar story that is written at least twice a year by the Associated Press and appears on every major news site in one form or another. This is not […]
Generation X retirement is a doomsday of flattened wages, vanishing pensions and inflated mortgages
I had some victory that was just failure in deceit Now the joke’s comin’ up through the soles of my feet —From Springsteen and Lucky Town The Philadelphia Inquirer has published an editorial by Maria Panaritis about the grim odds of Generation X making it through retirement without going broke. The facts are sobering. Most […]
The promise of Social Security and Generation X
While one group prepares to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Social Security with a collection of stories about how the insurance program has impacted society for the good, another group is releasing a study that shows dramatically high percentages of Americans including those in the upper tier of income earners, are likely to run short of money […]