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Article: Changing retirement age: ups and downs.(laws and research, United States)(Statistical Data Included)
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- Monthly Labor Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2001
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In recent years, legislative changes, new types of retirement plans, and increases in life expectancy have led to differences in retirement ages; workers now have many alternatives to traditional retirement at age 65
I grow old ... I grow old ... I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
--T.S. Eliot
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