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This week in the war on workers: Republicans take aim at retirement savings program

Leave a Comment / retirement / By max cyril

The United States is heading for a major retirement crisis, with the shift from pensions to 401(k)s leaving at least half of households in danger of running short of money in retirement. There are a lot of possible solutions to that, and one of them doesn’t even involve employers paying their workers more: What if people who …

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No Justice, No Peeps! Workers Walk Off the Job At Pennsylvania Peeps Factory

Leave a Comment / Strike / By max cyril

Workers employed by candy manufacturer, Just Born Quality Confections, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, are on strike over the company’s pension plan proposal. The strike, workers allege, hits the company—which makes Peeps, as well as Mike and Ike and Hot Tamales candies—just as next year’s Easter orders are meant to be made. “This is my livelihood,” says …

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401(k) Retirement Plans Amplify Income Inequality and Racial Disparities

Leave a Comment / retirement / By max cyril

It’s bad enough that the move toward individual retirement plans has been a massive failure when it comes to providing average working Americans retirement security. But now there’s research that shows that our dependence on individual retirement plans adds fuel to the fire of racial and class inequities in ways that the pension plans that …

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This week in the war on workers: Republicans take aim at retirement savings program

No Justice, No Peeps! Workers Walk Off the Job At Pennsylvania Peeps Factory

401(k) Retirement Plans Amplify Income Inequality and Racial Disparities

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