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My neighbors aren't millionaires. They're retirees who depend on Social Security and Medicare.
Marco Rubio / United States Senator
Social Security
Millionaires
Neighbors
Retirees
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I think taxpayers should be outraged that retirees and administrators are walking away with thousands in accrued benefits and bonuses.
Kathy Szeliga /
Administrators
Outraged
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Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements.
Bill Frist / Former United States Senator
Accounts
Growth
Harness
Marketplace
Retirement
Saving
Savings Accounts
Enable
Personal Savings
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Voluntary
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It's very likely that graduates, current employees and retirees have some wonderful pieces of Deer Park history in their closets or garages.
Matt Lucas / Comedian
Closets
Deer
Graduates
Parks
Pieces
Current
Employees
Likely
Park
Retirees
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The Department of Labor's final conflict of interest rule will ensure that America's workers and retirees receive retirement advice in their best interest.
Tom Perez /
Advice
Conflict
Department
Labor
Workers
Ensure
Receive
Retirees
Rule
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Recessions are never good for anyone. A sputtering economy means miserable financial, emotional, and physical-health consequences for everyone from infants to retirees.
Annie Lowrey /
Miserable
Infants
Retirees
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For far too long, virtually every time Americans have been asked to make 'tough choices,' it has resulted in disproportionate harm for hardworking Americans and retirees.
Jan Schakowsky / U.s. Representative
Hardworking
Harm
Tough Choices
Disproportionate
Resulted
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Virtually
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Most elderly are retirees with relatively low incomes. But some may possess assets, and they will be classified as poor. As such, the elderly poverty rate could be overstated.
Carrie Lam /
Assets
Elderly
Rate
Classified
Incomes
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Relatively
Possess
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A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.
Ben Stein / Actor
Corporations
Pension
Pension Plans
Plans
Responsibility
Shareholders
Succeed
Companies
Corporation
Employees
Retirees
Rid
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Today there are about 40 million retirees receiving benefits; by the time all the baby boomers have retired, there will be more than 72 million retirees drawing Social Security benefits.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
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Baby
Benefits
Boomers
Drawing
Receiving
Retired
Security
Social Security
Time Today Will
Baby Boomers
By The Time
Million
Retirees
Social Security Benefits
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On the campaign trail, I have the opportunity to meet people from all walks of life - from residents at a battered women's shelter to mentally handicap children to retirees - and learn about their lives and struggles.
Jill Biden / Wife Of The Vice President Of The United States
Battered
Residents
Shelter
Walks
Mentally
Life Women Opportunity
Handicap
Retirees
Trail
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Left-wing shareholder activists seek to leverage the mass economic power of institutional investors such as pension funds, whose managers are supposed to focus strictly on their fiduciary responsibilities to retirees.
Elaine Chao / Former United States Secretary Of Labor
Economic Power
Focus
Investors
Left Wing
Managers
Mass
Pension
Activists
Funds
Institutional
Leverage
Seek
Strictly
Responsibilities
Retirees
Supposed
Whose
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To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served.
Solomon Ortiz / U.s. Representative
Veterans Day
Men
Benefits
Honor
Men And Women
Military
Our Veterans
Overdue
Promise
Men Women Today
Women Men Today
Provide
Retirees
Served
Uniform
Veterans
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As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system.
Steve Israel / U.s. Representative
Finance
Benefits
Generations
Security
Social Security
Today
Workers
Functions
Generation
Paying
Premise
Retirees
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If we do not act now to strengthen Social Security, the system that so many depend upon today will be unable to meet its promises to tomorrow's retirees, and it will burden our children and grandchildren with exhaustive taxes.
Chris Chocola / Businessman
Burden
Children
Grandchildren
Promise
Security
Social Security
Today
Tomorrow
Today Tomorrow Will
Today Tomorrow Children
Depend
Exhaustive
Meet
Promises
Retirees
Strengthen
Unable
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Let's find those areas where modest and reasonable tax cuts will have the biggest positive impact on our economy, and which will improve the lives of those who need it most: working families, retirees, and small business owners.
Larry Hogan /
Positive
Business Owners
Economy
Impact
Modest
Owners
Positive Impact
Reasonable
Small Business
Small Business Owners
Tax Cuts
Tax
Area
Biggest
Cuts
Small
Retirees
Working Families
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More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security program began, the payroll tax has increased more than 500 percent.
Alex Tabarrok / Economist
Benefits
Expectancy
Fewer
Life Expectancy
Payroll
Payroll Tax
Program
Social Security
Trends
Workers
Tax
Increases
Retirees
Substantial
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As a former veteran, I understand the needs of veterans, and have been clear - we will work together, stand together with the Administration, but we will also question their policies when they shortchange veterans and military retirees.
Solomon Ortiz / U.s. Representative
Veterans Day
Administration
Former
Military
Veteran
Work Together Will
Policies
Retirees
Veterans
Work Together
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Every city and town in America would be bankrupt if they kept their books the way private-sector companies keep their books - because of the obligation cities and towns have taken upon themselves to provide health care for their retirees.
Clayton M. Christensen /
Cities
Health Care
Obligation
Taken
Towns
Companies
Provide
Retirees
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The President's proposed privatization plan would jeopardize that security by cutting guaranteed benefits for future retirees and endangering the benefits of current retirees, people with disabilities, and children who have lost a parent.
Chaka Fattah / U.s. Representative
Benefits
Cutting
Jeopardize
Parent
Privatization
Security
Current
Disabilities
Guaranteed
Plan
Proposed
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I think what should be celebrated about our campaign is we have over 3 million people who have contributed to our campaign - teachers, firefighters, nurses, retirees. They're making up the backbone of this field organization in the country.
David Plouffe / Political Strategist
Teacher
Country
Making Up
Organization
Thinking
Teachers
Campaign
Celebrated
Firefighters
Million People
Nurses
Retirees
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Unfortunately, my colleagues in Congress have unfairly burdened the Postal Service with a costly, unfunded mandate to pre-pay health care for retirees. No other agency or business has to pay these costs in advance - and neither should the Postal Service.
Marcia Fudge /
Agency
Colleagues
Congress
Health Care
Pay
Postal Service
Advance
Burdened
Costly
Unfortunately
Mandate
Neither
Postal
Retirees
Service
Unfairly
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I joined a writing class at a nearby community center, where I was the youngest participant by about 40 years. Once a week, I'd funnel down a staircase and join the dozen retirees crowded in folding chairs around a table to discuss one another's stories.
Anthony Marra / Writer
Chairs
Crowded
Dozen
Folding
Center
Discuss
Join
Nearby
Once A Week
Participant
Retirees
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Youngest
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Leisure time is only leisure time when it is earned; otherwise, leisure time devolves into soul-killing lassitude. There's a reason so many new retirees, freed from the treadmill of work, promptly keel over on the golf course: Work fulfills us. It keeps us going.
Ben Shapiro / Commentator
Golf
Golf Course
Leisure
Leisure Time
Reason
Time Work New
Course
Earned
Work Time New
Freed
Fulfills
Over
Otherwise
Promptly
Retirees
Treadmill
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Research by James Poterba at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology finds that the wealth of the U.S.'s elderly is highly skewed. About half of retirees have little or no financial wealth when they retire and depend almost entirely on Social Security for their income.
Greg Ip /
Elderly
Income
Institute
Massachusetts
Social Security
Wealth
Depend
Retire
Entirely
Finds
Highly
James
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Skewed
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As the graying of the country continues its march forward, many retirees are now relocating to dense urban centers for the cultural and social opportunities, access to public transportation, and the ability to shop nearby for food and household needs without depending unduly on others.
Chuck Norris / Martial Artist
Dense
March
Transportation
Urban
Centers
Cultural
Nearby
Shop
Retirees
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They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.
Chris Christie / Governor Of New Jersey
Leadership
Health
Bankruptcy
Benefits
Dollars
Health Benefits
Pension
Rail
Reform
Saved
Years
Touch
Billion
Billion Dollars
Headed
Pensions
Retirees
Third
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Retirees who are on Medicare will suffer the consequences of 700 billions of Medicare dollars instead being used to cover the skyrocketing cost of Obamacare. In essence, less dollars for seniors means less service. Not fair. The Boomers are going to take the 'hit.' In Obamacare, 'too old' has limitations of service.
Suzanne Somers / Actress
Billions
Boomers
Cost
Dollars
Essence
Not Fair
Obamacare
Consequences
Hit
Being Used
Cover
Fair
Instead
Limitations
Retirees
Seniors
Service
Skyrocketing
Suffer
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Other countries around the world make employees and retirees first in the priority. For example, in Mexico, the bankruptcy laws say if a company wants to go bankrupt... obligations to employees and retirees will have a first priority. That has an effect on every negotiation that takes place with every company in Mexico.
Elizabeth Warren / United States Senator
Bankruptcy
Mexico
Negotiation
Other Countries
Employees
World Will Place
For Example
Obligations
Retirees
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Throughout the Great Recession of 2008, the average 401(k) balance lost anywhere from 25 to 40 percent of value. Nobody was more harmed than baby boomers or recent retirees, who, unlike younger workers, didn't have the time for the market to rebound or were no longer contributing and therefore unable to invest when stocks were cheap.
Mary Pilon /
Average
Balance
Boomers
Contributing
Percent
Rebound
Workers
Younger
Anywhere
Time Great Value
Baby Boomers
Cheap
Invest
Unlike
Harmed
Market
Recent
Retirees
Stocks
Therefore
Throughout
Unable
Younger Workers
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