The Boulevard to Financial Independence

By Mariette

Did you know that half of the women who are now 65 will live until they are 85? Statistically women have a longer life expectancy than men, on average they live 7 years longer – therefore they have to plan for a longer retirement. In addition they also tend to earn less money than men for doing the same job (remember ERA did NOT pass in the 1970’s.)

Here are some humbling statistics taken from WISER’s website

http://www.wiser.heinz.org/portal/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

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By Matt

Over the last week, I’ve been talking with people about women’s economic security and retirement issues. It turns out that the government has developed quite a few programs, all of which I’ve never heard of until I went digging for information. Among the sites and resources that seem to be most valuable:
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