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From: Rick Beckrich <rbeckrich@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 16:33:38 -0500
Thank you Tina!
You beat me to it.
(I was still fuming.)

On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 1:18 PM, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I suspect that Nathan is not going by any evidence, Tina.  I also suspect
> that the picture would not be wildly different from that analysis in the
> UK.  It might be better in some other parts of Europe – the Netherlands,
> Belgium and Germany, perhaps – but again I have no evidence.
>
> However, there might be some misrepresentation of the situation with
> regard to retired people in the UK.  There seems to be a large measure of
> generalisation in some of the articles that I have read over the last year
> or so.  Here’s one from the Guardian (a generally left-wing, but honest,
> paper):
>
>
> http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/dec/10/recently-retired-households-greater-share-uk-wealth
> <
> http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/dec/10/recently-retired-households-greater-share-uk-wealth
> >
>
> It paints a rather confusing picture with a mix of units like, “the wealth
> of recently retired households has now overtaken that of the one in three
> households headed by someone under 45 years of age”.
>
>
> Whereas the Telegraph (right-wing, sometimes quite sensationalist and
> uninterested in the facts):
>
>
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/pensions/11944141/Pensioners-are-9-a-week-better-off-than-those-in-work.html
> <
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/pensions/11944141/Pensioners-are-9-a-week-better-off-than-those-in-work.html
> >
>
> shows a mix comparisons which is almost guaranteed to give the wrong
> impression.
>
> But I will concede that salaries are now lower than might have been the
> case when I started my career in the RAF, that it’s much more difficult to
> afford a house, that savings rates are poor and that current youngsters are
> much less likely to be able to afford to save for decent retirement pay.
> My 2 sons, 32 and 35, have not really got underway with their retirement
> savings.
>
> Chris
>
> > On 28 Feb 2016, at 16:22, Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > You live in a different world from me.
> >
> >
> http://kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/poverty-among-seniors-an-updated-analysis-of-national-and-state-level-poverty-rates-under-the-official-and-supplemental-poverty-measures/
> <
> http://kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/poverty-among-seniors-an-updated-analysis-of-national-and-state-level-poverty-rates-under-the-official-and-supplemental-poverty-measures/
> >
>
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