Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith takes a look at the question, "Can you afford to retire?" tonight on PBS's Frontline series.
If you want a broader view, check out public radio's Diane Rehm show today. Rehm explored the bigger picture of boomers and retirement with Smith; Charles Veith, president of T. Rowe Price Retirement Plan Services; and Marc Freedman, president of Civic Ventures.
Marc saved the discussion from a dreary recitation of numbers, numbers, and more numbers by drawing the focus back to the bigger trends and context -- the new stage of life between midlife careers and true old age, the world of boomers and continuing work, the historic invention of retirement and its current reinvention, and, of course, the yearning many boomers have to give back to society.
If you are a numbers person, there's a current bestseller of the same name: The Number: A Completely Different Way to Think About the Rest of Your Life by Lee Eisenberg.
TV, radio, book. You choose the medium, but Marc's got the message.
--Stef Weiss
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