Kiplinger: Two Don'ts and Four Dos During Trump's Trade War
https://www.kiplinger.com/retirement/dos-and-donts-during-trumps-trade-war #Retirement #PersonalFinance #Investing #MoneyAdvice #Kiplinger #RetirementPlanning
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4/21/1950 In an important milestone in the long legislative processes that led to the final Medicare act, in H.R. 12580 was passed.https://www.ssa.gov/history/corningchap4.html
4/21/1950 A hearing was held on H.R. 7873 which would authorize the construction of a building costing $11,500,000 for the Baltimore SSA offices. https://books.google.com/books/about/Buildings_for_the_Bureau_of_Old_Age_and.html?id=V1cvAAAAMAAJ
4/21/1983 President Reagan signed legislation that changed the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) bend point.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v68n2/v68n2p21.html
4/21/1995 “That was the first time that the employees had seen each other since the explosion,” according to Area Director Dick Allen. https://www.ssa.gov/history/pdf/June1995.pdf
4/21/1995 Robert M. Ball issues the report on the Social Security Advisory Council Meetings on April 21 and April 22.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/reports/adcouncil/adcouncil_intro.html and https://www.ssa.gov/history/adviseb.html
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Is retirement somehow bad for your brain? A recent NY Times articles might leave that impression, but the actual studies it's based on tell a different - and more nuanced - story.
https://nextchapter.machlis.com/posts/2025-04-21-is-retirement-bad-for-your-brain-ny-times-weigh-in/
Breaking news! 
The Vatican's most famous resident has finally retired to the big chapel in the sky, leaving the Earthly realm without its top spiritual influencer. Now who will we look to for guidance on how to have a holy #retirement at 88? 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/crknlnzlrzdt #Vatican #HolyInfluencer #SpiritualGuidance #88YearsOld #HackerNews #ngated
#retirement #hobbies I especially fancy the combination of cycling, history and photography
Retiring Conservative MP Len Webber makes good on promise to late wife
Len Webber announced last month his retirement from politics, after 10 years as an Alberta legislature member and 11 years as the MP for Calgary Confederation.
#politics #retirement #Alberta #Calgary #Canada #Feature
https://globalnews.ca/news/11140638/len-webber-mp-retiring-wife/
Retiring Conservative MP Len Webber makes good on promise to late wife
Len Webber announced last month his retirement from politics, after 10 years as an Alberta legislature member and 11 years as the MP for Calgary Confederation.
#politics #retirement #Alberta #Calgary #Canada #Feature
https://globalnews.ca/news/11140638/len-webber-mp-retiring-wife/
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4/20/1892 Abraham Epstein, a prominent economist and social justice advocate was born. Epstein is the person generally recognized as introducing the phrase “social security.” https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v55n1/v55n1p63.pdf
4/20/1938 The Special Senate Committee to Investigate Unemployment and Relief recommended the transfer of the United States Employment Service from the Department of Labor to the Social Security Board. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/579059
4/20/1948 The Social Security Act was amended to exclude certain newspaper and magazine vendors from coverage under old-age and survivors insurance. https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v11n7/v11n7p3.pdf
4/20/1961 By a vote of 399 to 14, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 6027, the Social Security Amendments of 1961.
More: https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v24n9/v24n9p3.pdf
4/20/1983 President Reagan signed into law the Social Security Amendments of 1983. https://www.ssa.gov/history/reaganstmts.html#1983 (video: https://youtu.be/6cBntY2od0o)
https://www.ssa.gov/history/taxationofbenefits.html, https://www.ssa.gov/history/1983amend2.html, https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v70n3/v70n3p1.html
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As my retirement is nearing I’m considering (additional) hobbies.
Some should be solo activities, others should encourage social interactions and new contacts. Some should be sustainable even when physical activity is getting difficult. Some should promote physical fitness.
So, a preliminary list:
cycling
photography
(local) history
archery
tai chi
Suggestion welcome
No, you do not really need $1.26 million to #retire
#Americans get conflicting suggestions about how much #money they need for a comfortable #retirement. Here’s what the sound bites don’t tell you.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91318807/you-do-not-really-need-1-26-million-to-retire
USian Xennials have seen the dream of #retirement slip from our grasp within our lifetimes. In the 1980's, we saw our grandparents retiring from a single income with nice houses and possibly some vacation property to the 2020's horror of a COVID ridden life sentence to an LTC facility or possibly run out of money and going homeless, fighting off others over a can of cat food on the sidewalk.
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Remembering the 168 hard working civil servants (including 16 SSA employees) who made the ultimate sacrifice at their duty stations on, April 19, 1995, at 9:02 a.m. CST, when our nation experienced a profound tragedy in the terrorist bomb attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Office Building in Oklahoma City.
The Oklahoma City Bombing - A Survivor's Story:
https://youtu.be/wZ9POQYO1ao
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4/19/1935 The Social Security Bill (H.R. 7260) was passed by the House of Representatives, by a vote of 372 yeas, 33 nays, 2 present, and 25 not voting. https://www.ssa.gov/history/tally.html Congressional record: https://www.ssa.gov/history/pdf/h419.pdf
4/19/1939 The Unemployment Compensation Amendment authorizing the annual appropriation of $80 million for grants to States for unemployment compensation administration was approved by the President. https://ballotpedia.org/Federal_Unemployment_Tax_Act_(1939)
4/19/1950 The act for the rehabilitation of the Navajo and Hopi tribes of Indians approved. https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v13n6/v13n6p8.pdf
4/19/1969 The central office staff of the Bureau of Federal Credit Unions completed its move to 1325 K Street, N.W. https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v32n5/v32n5p23.pdf
4/19/1991 Lou Enoff became SSA's first Principal Deputy Commissioner. https://www.ssa.gov/history/enoff.html
4/19/1995 The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma was bombed, killing 168 individuals, including 16 SSA employees.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/okc1.html
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'There isn't enough time to do all the nothing I want to do'
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Retiring Sask. privacy commissioner's advice on protecting your information in a digital world
Saskatchewan's information and privacy commissioner Ron Kruzeniski is retiring after more than a decade in the role. Kruzeniski, regarded as one of the most well known independent officers of the Saskatchewan legislature, shared some advice ...
#privacy #technology #retirement #Saskatchewan #News #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/retiring-privacy-commissioner-advice-1.7513254?cmp=rss
I'm now retired. How on Earth shall I fill my time?
<Glances at unread books, shelf of OS maps, garden, bicycles, various lists, several unfinished household projects, etc>
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4/18/1935 During House debate on the Social security Act, Mr. Monaghan (D-MT) offered an amendment based on the Townsend Plan. https://www.ssa.gov/history/pdf/h418.pdf & https://www.ssa.gov/history/towns5.html
4/18/1942 The War Manpower Commission was established https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v8n8/v8n8p6.pdf
4/18/1974 Commissioner Robert M. Ball participates in "National Health Insurance", Meeting The 1970s are described as a "Policy Watershed" decade.
"After 1972 Social Security insiders such as Robert Ball saw national health insurance as the next big thing in America’s welfare state. This issue had been a contentious one, almost from the time that it arose during the New Deal. Reformers thought that the government should bring the costs of health care within people's financial reach by starting a national program of public health insurance..." - Edward D. Berkowitz, Ph.D., George Washington University
https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/programs/health-nutrition/the-1970s-as-policy-watershed
4/18/2005 George W. Bush Discusses Strengthening Social Security in South Carolina. https://www.ssa.gov/history/gwbushstmts5b.html#04182005
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"This bill exempts the farmer, exempts casuals, and exempts domestics, because the amount of the tax would be inconsiderable and its collection would be such a nuisance and cause such a clamor ..." - Rep. Fred Vinson (D-KY) during House floor during debate on the Social Security Act April 17, 1935 https://www.ssa.gov/history/hquotes2.html
4/17/1952 Supervision fees paid by Federal credit unions increased under the terms of Public Law 322. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-66/pdf/STATUTE-66-Pg62.pdf
4/17/1962 Robert M. Ball was sworn in as Commissioner of Social Security. https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v68n3/v68n3p67.html
4/17/1996 H.R. 3266, "Bipartisan Welfare Reform Act of 1996" was introduced. Although the bill was not enacted into law, similar goals and themes were enacted in the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA). https://www.congress.gov/bill/104th-congress/house-bill/3266
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Employer lobby successfully pushes Irish Cabinet to backtrack on #LivingWage, paid #SickLeave, and other support for low-paid, sick, young, migrant, and retired employees
