Ina Jaffe

Automatic-Enrollment IRAs Get A Test Run In California

Ina Jaffe — Wed, 01 May 2013 07:21:00 +0000

With all of the controversy over entitlement reform, there's one thing both sides can agree on: Social Security alone does not provide enough money for a comfortable retirement. For these workers, the Obama administration is proposing automatically enrolling workers in IRAs through their employers.

California adopted a version of this last year. Democratic state Sen. Kevin de Leon sponsored the bill to automatically enroll workers in an individual retirement account. The inspiration, he says, was his Aunt Francisca, who's 74.

"She's my second mother.

A Mother's Fight Against 3 Strikes Law 'A Way of Life'

Ina Jaffe — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:25:00 +0000

Since the November election, 240 California prisoners facing potential life sentences have been set free. That's because voters changed California's tough three strikes sentencing law.

As NPR reported in 2009, that law sent thousands of people to prison for terms of 25 years to life for minor, nonviolent crimes. Now those prisoners can ask the court to have their sentences reduced.

One of those set free under the new law is Shane Reams.

'A Lovely Feeling': Celebrating Older Women With Fabulous Style

Ina Jaffe — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 01:02:53 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4rppAHskqQ

A Retired Chicago Cop's Second Act Is At A Barbershop

Ina Jaffe — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 07:55:00 +0000

Increasingly, people are continuing to work past 65. Almost a third of Americans between the ages of 65 and 70 are working, and among those older than 75, about 7 percent are still on the job. In Working Late, a series for Morning Edition, NPR profiles older adults who are still in the workforce.

Some older Americans are passing up retirement in favor of starting businesses of their own.

For Elderly Midwife, Delivering Babies Never Gets Old

Ina Jaffe — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:42:00 +0000

Sometimes you can't retire even if you want to. For Dian Sparling, a certified nurse midwife in Fort Collins, Colo., there's no one to take over her practice.

At 85, 'Old-School' Politician Shows No Signs Of Quitting

Ina Jaffe — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 08:02:00 +0000

Politics is one field that has long been associated with people working into their later years — sometimes even into their 80s or 90s. And at 85, state Sen.

Baby Boomers Return To The Multiplex, And Hollywood Notices

Ina Jaffe — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:03:55 +0000

If you're not counting the days until the release of Iron Man 3, if you're not sure who Kristen Stewart is, and if the last romantic comedy you saw starred Meryl Streep, you just may be over 50.

That's a segment of the moviegoing audience that may have been neglected once — but no more.

When A Bad Economy Means Working 'Forever'

Ina Jaffe — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:08:00 +0000

Janet Sims-Wood is a 67-year-old librarian living near Washington, D.C., who, like millions of other seniors, has had to stay in the workforce past retirement age to make ends meet.

Series Overview: More Americans Working Past Retirement Age

Ina Jaffe — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:45:10 +0000

The top financial worry of Americans is that they won't have enough money when they retire, according to a recent Gallup poll. And the average age at which Americans expect to retire keeps rising — from age 60 in the mid-1990s to age 67 now, the survey showed.

Working past retirement age isn't an expectation. But for a growing number of older people, it's their reality.

For One Senior, Working Past Retirement Age Is A Workout

Ina Jaffe — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:43:00 +0000

Increasingly, people are continuing to work past 65. Almost a third of Americans between the ages of 65 and 70 are working, and among those older than 75, about 7 percent are still on the job.