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The retirement crisis: Even when we need to work longer, many of us can't
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Here's our retirement crisis in a nutshell: Americans realize that they need to work longer and save more, but in many cases they can't.
Reality intrudes in the form of layoffs, a chronically weak job market and sometimes poor health. Having skimped on saving in their younger years, folks know they should stay on the job well past age 65, but then they're forced to quit sooner.
In the Employee Benefit Research Institute's annual retirement confidence survey, 37 percent of respondents said they intend to work past 65. That's up from just 11 percent in 1991, which means that a generation of workers has largely discarded their parents' notion of a traditional retirement age.
When the EBRI talked to retirees, though, half said they had left the work force unexpectedly. Often, having to leave ahead of schedule led to worries about having enough money to cover even basic expenses.
In another mismatch between expectations and reality, 70 percent of workers think they'll work a part-time job in retirement, but only 27 percent of current retirees are doing so. A lot of people, then, are counting on income that won't be there when they need it.
Folks do realize that they may have to cut back. Only 14 percent of workers expressed confidence that they'll be able to afford a comfortable retirement. When pollsters asked about paying for medical expenses and long-term care, the very confident number falls as low as 9 percent.
The insecure majority of workers aren't just being worrywarts, either. They're responding to some very troubling trends in the economy.
The level of job insecurity is something we hadn't found before, said Craig Copeland, a senior research associate at the EBRI. We are seeing that even people with jobs feel that a lack of job security is one of the biggest concerns they have.
Furthermore, even people who have good jobs probably don't have a traditional pension plan, at least not in the private sector. Most of us are responsible for our own retirement security.
And most of us are falling short. More than 60 percent of workers, and 55 percent of retirees, have less than $25,000 in any form of savings, the EBRI found. That's not much, considering that many folks can expect to live 20 years or more in retirement.
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Afghan Suspect’s Life Marked by Honors, Personal Setbacks
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By Peter Robison, James Nash and Alison Vekshin - Sun Mar 18 18:05:59 GMT 2012
March 16 (Bloomberg) -- John Henry Browne, a lawyer representing the U.S. army sergeant held in connection with the killings of 16 civilians in Afghanistan, discusses his communication with the soldier and his family. Emma Scanlan and Richard Adler also spoke at the news conference yesterday in Seattle, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of Joint Base Lewis-McChord, the soldier's home station. (Source: Bloomberg)
Robert Bales, the U.S. Army staff sergeant suspected of killing 16 Afghan civilians, was a decorated veteran who also experienced wounds in service and setbacks at home.
He once spoke of saving civilians when his infantry unit in the Iraq war found villagers and family members of Iraqi fighters after the 2007 Battle of Najaf, also known as the Battle of Zarqa, that left 250 insurgents dead. The American soldiers turned from fighting to saving lives, according to a military account.
Ive never been more proud to be a part of this unit than that day, for the simple fact that we discriminated between the bad guys and the noncombatants and then afterward we ended up helping the people that, three or four hours before, were trying to kill us, Bales said in an interview for the 2009 report.
Yet women and children were among the 16 victims of the March 11 shootings in two villages in southern Afghanistan, according to U.S. officials who on March 16 identified Bales, a 38-year-old married father of two, as the suspect. The killings threaten to erode U.S.-Afghan relations, drain remaining U.S. and European support for the war and add pressure to speed troop withdrawals.
Along with a career marked by military honors, a portrait emerged of Bales as a man who had faced financial troubles and brushes with the law. He was a soldier who had been injured twice in Iraq, spurned when he sought a promotion and deployed to Afghanistan even though his family opposed him going into combat again.
Bales was flown March 16 to a U.S. military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Army Colonel James Hutton said in a statement. Bales was being held in a medium-security facility in his own cell and no charges had been announced in the killings. Baless attorney, John Henry Browne of Seattle, will meet with his client tomorrow at the prison, Brownes colleague Emma Scanlan said today in an e-mail.
The Army turned down a request from Bales for a promotion last year, his wife Karilyn wrote March 25 on a blog she maintained as an online family diary. She said her husband was very disappointed after all of the work Bob has done and all the sacrifices he has made for his love of his country, family and friends.
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BYU women's track and field: Cougars earn several personal bests in San Diego
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SAN DIEGO A rain-shortened schedule did not prevent the BYU womens track and field team from producing several personal-best marks at the first meet of the outdoor season Saturday.
It rained so much that the drainage system on the track overflowed and caused some flooding in the competition area, BYU head coach Patrick Shane said. We did not get to compete as much as we wanted, but we still had some great performances and personal bests.
Junior Allyson Anderson had the best performance of the day when she topped her javelin personal record by nearly three meters with a toss of 49.82m (163-05). She finished first in the event. Amber Huntington placed fourth with a throw of 43.28m (142-00).
Also setting a new personal record was sophomore Martha Shephard. Shephard placed eighth in the hammer throw with a toss of 53.17m (174-05).
In the pole vault, Rachel Fisher competed for the first time in over a year. Fisher led BYU with a third-place finish in the event with a vault of 3.87m (12-8.25). Diana McAllister Perry and Nicole Naatjes tied for sixth with a jump of 3.72m (12-2.50).
Taylor Stapley led the way in the high jump with a third-place finish with a mark of 1.65m (5-5.00). Ada Robinson placed sixth with a jump of 1.60m (5-3.00) and Diana Blauer took 11th with a leap of 1.55m (5-1.00).
Taylor is really on a roll, Shane said. She performed great during the indoor season and is off to a good start here in outdoor.
Melissa Keltner finished fourth in the triple jump with a leap of 5.57m (18-3.25).
On the track, Angela Shields and Brooke Jensen both finished the 100m hurdles in 15.61 while Kassie Jensen nabbed third in the 100m in 12.27.
BYU will head back to California on Friday to compete in the USC Invitational.
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TRIAD reports success in pill drop effort
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MICHIGAN CITY A La Porte County organization is happy with the results of a five-year campaign to encourage the proper disposal of unneeded, out-of-date or unused prescription drugs. According to the organizations data, more than 3,000 pounds of drugs have been collected in the effort.
This 3,043 pounds of pills, a ton and a half, will not end up in a childs hands or in our environment, TRIAD treasurer Tom Szawara said in a report issued March 1. These pills have been removed from La Porte County and incinerated in South Bend.
TRIAD is a volunteer organization comprised of three law enforcement agencies, members from 25 community organizations and several senior citizens. The organization began the pill collection effort in 2007. Utilizing community pill collection events, 504 pounds were collected the first year.
Public awareness efforts and multiple collection events in 2008 and 2009 spurred participation, with 852 pounds collected in 2008 and 812 pounds in 2009. The numbers since those two peak years have gone down, with 2011 contributing only 60 pounds from three community collection events to the campaigns total.
In 2011, TRIAD added permanent drop boxes in the La Porte County Sheriffs Office and the Michigan City Police Department. These drop boxes collected 150 pounds of pills from April 14 through March 1.
At the Michigan City Police Station, the drop box is available 24 hours a day. The box is designed to prevent anyone from reaching inside to get at the pills. It can only be opened by the police using a key.
We have a no questions asked policy, said Michigan City Police Sgt. Chris Yagelski.
Getting rid of prescription drugs through the drop box program achieves two objectives, Yagelski said. The first is that it is a more environmentally-friendly way of disposing of narcotics. The containers turned in are recycled through a outside contractor and reused in Haiti.
The second reason is that cleaning out home medicine cabinets is a wise thing to do.
People hold on to medication just in case, Yagelski said. If its there, children and grandkids can get into it to sell or use.
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