“ In both versions, the retirement age increase is based on the assumption that older workers would continue to work, perhaps till they dropped, if not for the "mixed retirement signals that often draw them into early retirement and treat retirement itself as a binary choice." That implies that workers are almost duped into filing for Social Security, when they would be so much happier staying on the job.”
More like “you wouldn’t be a good fit” meaning “you’re too old”.
“ For all Americans, average life expectancy at age 65 has risen since the 1930s by about 6.6 years, to about 84 and a half. The increase has been about the same for white workers. But for Black people in general, the gain is just over five years, to an average of a bit over 83, and for Black men it's less than four years and two months, to an average of about 81 and four months.”
That’s. Disturbing. To say the least!
“ That's not all. There are also pronounced disparities in life expectancy by income. The CRFB waves away this issue: ‘Raising the retirement ages does not — as some claim — disproportionately affect lower earners or regressively cut benefits,’ its 2019 paper asserted.
Who claimed this? The Congressional Budget Office and National Academy of Sciences, to name two sources that painstakingly documented the disproportion.”