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French Retirement Age Protests

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On March 20, 2023
I don’t have enough knowledge on France to comment meaningfully on the protests against Macron’s dictatorial attempt to raise the retirement age in the country. My major thought about French politics is this–if only the U.S. had multiple political parties that engaged in the coalitional politics a subsect of Americans really want, we too could […]
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This story of where Jill Stein has invested her money is reasonably interesting, if just a tad bit unfair. Basically, her retirement is tied up in mutual funds that are terrible because they exploit labor and the environment. Does that make Stein a hypocrite? No, I don’t think so. It does make her unfortunately unaware […]

The End of Pensions

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On June 2, 2015

This story about how the Bricklayers union offered a real compromise on their pensions only to have it completely rejected by management is incredibly depressing. Basically, there was a moment in Amer

Gregory Wood’s Retiring Men examines the intersection between masculinity, work, and retirement in the first six decades of the twentieth century. He argues that the crisis over retirement in a changing economy shaped connections between manhood and work during these years, an issue of real importance in the unstable economy of the New Gilded Age. […]
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