While the unfunded pension liabilities in many public retirement funds have received an inordinate amount of attention, the larger retirement deficit of most Americans is not generating the level of concern that it deserves. Individuals who have been left on their own to save for retirement in 401(k) accounts face challenges that are not being met.

Discussion of the President’s Weekly Radio Address for Labor Day Weekend 2010

As our economies and markets advance ever further forward, and we gain tremendous efficiencies in production, we should be retiring earlier; not later.

Congressman David Obey, who has represented a Wisconsin district since 1969, has decided to retire.

It’s simply not right for the government to deny Social Security benefits to gay and lesbian people!

Some interesting stats on the American worker and retirement savings, courtesy of CNN.

The US economy has been “parted out” for the last three decades of “free trade,” and what is left over is not capable of fairly allocating resources to the extent that the US faces dystopia in the mid term. Americans must demand that the economy be oriented to serve human needs first, and that means hacking Wall Street out of every major economic transaction most folks enter into.

If you think workers are getting screwed in the current economy, wait until they try to retire.