SPECIAL | Are you prepared or panicked for retirement? Your age may hold the key.
The Excerpt
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🗓️ 9 October 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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From Gen Z to the Silent Generation, Americans are approaching building their nest egg in vastly different ways. Boomers feel unprepared, while Gen Xers worry they're behind schedule, and Millennials – who are navigating student loan debt on top of rising housing, child care and education costs – are feeling the squeeze. USA TODAY Personal Finance Reporter Daniel de Visé and Money Reporter Bailey Schulz join The Excerpt to share their findings in this first of four specials exploring how different generations are handling life’s pressure points.
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| 0:08.0 | Hello and welcome to The Excerpt. I'm Dana Taylor. Today is Wednesday October 9th, 2024 and this is a special episode of the |
| 0:18.6 | excerpt. From prep to panic, retirement expectations in America have become, well, complicated and |
| 0:30.2 | differs greatly by generation. |
| 0:32.2 | While boomers are anxious about having enough put away to finally get out of the rat race, |
| 0:36.7 | Gen C is said to be healthy savers ahead of their time. |
| 0:40.0 | Can understanding the lens through which we talk about retirement |
| 0:43.4 | help us plan for and navigate this phase of our lives more successfully. |
| 0:48.0 | To dive into the issues here, I'm joined now by USA Today, |
| 0:51.0 | Finance Reporters Daniel Daviset and Bailey Schultz, part of a network-wide |
| 0:55.8 | team exploring how generational divides define our thinking on and approach to various cultural |
| 1:01.4 | facets of life. |
| 1:02.4 | Daniel Bailey, thanks for joining me on the excerpt. to various cultural facets of life. |
| 1:02.8 | Daniel Bailey, thanks for joining me on the excerpt. |
| 1:05.4 | Thank you for having us. |
| 1:06.8 | Bailey, I want to start with you here. |
| 1:08.2 | Before the boomers who are currently |
| 1:09.8 | in the process of retiring en masse, |
| 1:12.1 | there was the silent generation, generation who largely |
| 1:15.0 | was able to enjoy retirement on generous pension plans provided by the places they worked for |
| 1:20.3 | 30, 40, 50 years. |
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